Joseph Goldyne Discusses the Work of Beth Van Hoesen
Thursday, May 28
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PORTLAND, Ore. — California artist Joseph Goldyne will offer a lecture about the work of printmaker Beth Van Hoesen on Thursday, May 28 at the Portland Art Museum.
Following a reception in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition Sensitive Vision: The Prints of Beth Van Hoesen, Goldyne, who is best known in the graphic arts for his role in the resurgence of the American monotype, will discuss Van Hoesen’s work as it relates to works by other Northern California artists who were serious about printmaking, such as Gordon Cook, Richard Diebenkorn, and Wayne Thiebaud.
Beth Van Hoesen and Graphic Art in San Francisco
Lecture by Joseph Goldyne
| Date and Time: | Thursday, May 28, 2009 6 p.m. reception followed by 6:30 p.m. lecture |
| Location: | Miller Gallery, Mark Building, 1119 SW Park Avenue Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205 |
| Cost: | $5 Museum members; $10 non-members. Lecture ticket includes entry to the reception. Free to members of the Friends of the Gilkey Center. |
About Joseph Goldyne
California artist Joseph Goldyne earned an undergraduate degree in art history from the University of California at Berkeley. Uncertain if he would be able to make a living as an artist, he went on to earn an M.D. at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco. After completing his medical studies, he made his first prints in black and white at the Impressions Workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and began producing monotypes and lithographs after becoming inspired by a catalogue of monotypes by Degas.
Upon earning an M.A. in fine arts from Harvard University, Goldyne returned to California and continued to print at the studio of Jeanne Gantz in Berkeley. His first solo exhibition of prints at the Quay Gallery in San Francisco in 1973 helped to bring monotypes to public attention. He produced a series of monotype books in 1976 and began a monumental book project titled Het Achterhuis/Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, which was shown at the Jewish Community Museum in San Francisco in 1986. Joseph and his wife Deborah Goldyne are avid collectors of master drawings. The private collection they have assembled is one of the largest in the nation and has been exhibited at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, among other arts institutions.
About Beth Van Hoesen
Born in Boise, Idaho in 1926, Beth Van Hoesen studied art in the 1940s and 1950s at Stanford University, the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco State College, and various art schools in Paris. Beginning in the mid-1950s, in San Francisco, she focused on intaglio printmaking, which she pursued over the next several decades. She was part of the renewed interest in figuration that began in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s. She has had numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Oakland Museum of California. The Portland Art Museum holds the most complete archive of her prints.
About Sensitive Vision: The Prints of Beth Van Hoesen
Drawn from the Portland Art Museum’s permanent collection, Sensitive Vision: The Prints of Beth Van Hoesen features a retrospective of some 70 prints by San Francisco artist Beth Van Hoesen. On view at the Portland Art Museum until August 16, the exhibition presents intimate portrayals in which Van Hoesen brings out the beauty and eccentricities of her subjects—people, animals, still lifes, and landscapes. The collection of over 600 prints by Van Hoesen at the Museum’s Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts is the most complete archive of her work. The exhibition is curated by Annette Dixon, Ph.D., curator of prints and drawings.
About the Portland Art Museum
The seventh oldest museum in the United States and the oldest on the West Coast, the Portland Art Museum is internationally recognized for its permanent collection and ambitious special exhibitions drawn from the Museum’s holdings and the world’s finest public and private collections. The Museum’s collection of 42,000 objects, displayed in 112,000 square feet of galleries, reflects the history of art from ancient times to today. The collection is distinguished for its holdings of arts of the native peoples of North America, English silver, and the graphic arts. An active collecting institution dedicated to preserving great art for the enrichment of future generations, the Museum devotes 90 percent of its galleries to its permanent collection. The Museum’s campus of landmark buildings, a cornerstone of Portland’s cultural district, includes the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, the Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, the Schnitzer Center for Northwest Art, the Northwest Film Center, and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Center for Native American Art. With a membership of more than 22,000 households and serving more than 350,000 visitors annually, the Museum is a premier venue for education in the visual arts. For information on exhibitions and programs, call 503.226.2811 or visit portlandartmuseum.org.
Editor’s Note: For high resolution images, please contact Amy M. Echo-Hawk at amy.echo-hawk@pam.org or 503-276-4305.
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