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Eva Hesse
[German-born American Minimalist Painter and Sculptor, 1936-1970]
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Eva Hesse Works Online
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Original works by Eva Hesse available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago
Eva Hesse at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Accession II
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Vertiginous Detour, 1966
Museum of Modern Art, New York City 15 works online when last checked
Eva Hesse at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Test Piece for "Contingent", 1969
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Contingent
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Laocoön
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Untitled, drawing
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) Untitled, 1964
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 5 works by or related to the artist
Hammer Museum, California H+H, 1965
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Eva Hesse in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Right After
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel Untitled, drawing, 1964
The Jewish Museum, New York City Images from a 2006 exhibition
The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago Information about a 1982 exhibition
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Eva Hesse in the Artchive
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
ARTnews "Sticks and Stones and Lemon Cough Drops"
ARTnews Ringaround Arosie, 1965
Deutsche Bank Artmag The Legend's Burden: Eva Hesse
Frieze Magazine "Oh! More Absurdity!"
Frieze Magazine "Body of Work"
Frieze Magazine Review (from issue 102): Eva Hesse
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) 
Tate Magazine Minimalism with a Human Face: Eva Hesse
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Strings attached", 2002 article by Adrian Searle
Time Magazine "Telling an Inner Life", 1992 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine "Vulnerable Ugliness", 1973 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Interactive Flash feature on Eva Hesse's working process
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Interactive Flash feature: Eva Hesse's Sans II
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Interactive Flash feature: Eva Hesse's Untitled or Not Yet
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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