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Stanford (Arnautoff Class)

1945
20th C.
North America, U.S.A.
29-3/4 x 19-1/4 in. (75.6 x 48.9 cm)

By (primary)
Beth Van Hoesen American, 1926–2010

Medium: Graphite and ink on paper

Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Beth Van Hoesen

Accession Number: 2011.62

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Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Ph.D., Burton and Deedee McMurtry Curator and Director of the Curatorial Fellowship Program, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University:
Printmaker Beth Van Hoesen attended Stanford in the mid-1940s and produced this drawing while studying with painter and muralist Victor Arnautoff (1890–1979), who taught here from 1938 to 1962. By assigning students to draw a full-length study of a skeleton, Arnautoff pushed them to closely observe and develop familiarity with the essential structure and proportions of the body. Van Hoesen went well beyond that by applying ink washes to represent shadows and hollows in the bones, and by implying movement and individuality with the skeleton’s pose.

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