'Beth van Hoesen: Personalities' at the Tobey C. Moss Gallery in LA

Written by Alfred Waldermeyer Sunday, 20 November 2011 21:05

Los Angeles, CA - The exquisite etchings, aquatints and drawings by BETH VAN HOESEN brighten the spring of 2011 from April 16th through June 30th at the Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles. Renowned as a portraitist of self, friends and animals she made many explorative pencil drawings.  Offered are her self-portrait in Checked Shirt and a portrait of the incomparable Imogen Cunningham. The opening image in the exhibition is a graphite and color pencil Self Portrait in Apron, a rendering that reveals her confident and diffident nature. Also, to be shown are iconic images of Sally, the imposing hare, and Boris, he of the critical and cynical eye!  She invests all subjects with individual personas. To etching, drypoint, aquatint and roulette Beth Van Hoesen routinely hand applied her colors a la poupee.  Each print displays the virtuosity, delicate stroke and sensitive palette associated with her work.

Like Winslow Homer, Van Hoesen allows the paper to bloom with minimal marks, as in the spare and mesmerizing landscapes including Castro Hill, the Black Hill and the Canyon Wall. Contained only by her simple, confident stroke, Van Hoesen’s ‘eye’ selects intimate details - coves, topography, sunset shadows - that encourage the viewer’s sense of sharing the scene. Though born in Idaho, Beth Van Hoesen lived in California since her teenage years.  This exhibition continues the focus upon artists of the west that is traditional at the Tobey C. Moss Gallery.




The Tobey C. Moss Gallery opened in 1978 with a modest showing of prints by John Sloan and Armin Hansen, from one coast of the United States to the other. As a member of the IFPDA/International Fine Print Dealers Association, their print inventory is extensive but they also offer drawings, watercolors, collages, paintings and sculptures. The Gallery favors American artists, particularly those active in California since the 1930s. Abstraction is a special direction in the Gallery, in parallel with social criticism, kineticism, works by women artists and works by Mexican/Latin and African American artists. In addition, they offer occasional fine works by European, Asian and Early Master artists. Many estates and media have been represented in the Gallery with current focus upon those of Jules Engel, Leonard Edmondson, Werner Drewes, Stanton Macdonald Wright, Clinton Adams, Nicholas P. (Nick) Brigante, Peter Krasnow and Gordon Wagner. They also present works by Ruth Asawa, Mario Avati, Dorr Bothwell, Elizabeth Catlett, Lee Chesney, William Dole, Lorser Feitelson, Oskar Fischinger, Ynez Johnston, John Paul Jones, Matusumi (Mike) Kanemitsu, Basil Langton, Helen Lundeberg, George Herms, Leopoldo Mendez, Carlos Merida, Lee Mullican, Pablo O’Higgins, Arnoldo Pomodoro, Jose Guadalupe Posada, Jay Rivkin, Betye Saar, Palmer Schoppe, Peter Shire, Joyce Treiman, Howard Warshaw, June Wayne, Emerson Woelffer, Tyrus Wong and many others. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.tobeycmossgallery.com

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