BETH VaN HOESEN ~ SIGNED ~ Creatures: Art of Seeing Animals, Prints Drawings Watercolors / Modern Art order San Francisco California artist

Creatures: The Art of Seeing Animals, Prints. Drawings and Watercolors by Beth Van Hoesen
Foreword by Evan Connell.
Published by Chronicle Books, 1987. First Printing paperbound edition. SIGNED /INSCRIBED by the ARTIST on front endpaper. Prints, drawings, and watercolors. Color illustrations. Oblong paperbound wraps with light sunning to covers else good + clean; 104 pages with biography list of exhibitions ...

" Beth Van Hoesen (1926 – November 26, 2010), sometimes known as Beth Van Hoesen Adams, was an American artist who was best known for her prints and drawings of animals and botanical subjects... In 1951, she enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts, where she studied under the painters David Park and Clyfford Still... Her work won a number of awards, including a 1981 Award of Honor in Graphics from the San Francisco Arts Commission, and a 1993 Distinguished Artist Award from the California Society order of Printmakers...

Public collections holding her work include the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Weisman Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

The artist's print archive was given to the Portland Art Museum.​" ​