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ID: 500026528 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500026528			Record Type: Person

Hesse, Eva (American sculptor, born in Germany, 1936-1970)

Note: Eva Hesse immigrated to the United States in 1939. She attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1952, Cooper Union from 1954-1957, and Yale University, where she earned her BFA in 1959. She married artist Tom Doyle in 1961 and traveled through Europe in 1964. She taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1968 to her untimely death in 1970. Hesse is best known for her sculptures that utilize latex and fiberglass and is often associated with the Minimalist movement.

Names:
	Hesse, Eva (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Eva Hesse (V,display)
	הסה, אווה (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	German

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	sculptor
	teacher
	painter

Gender: female


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Hamburg (Hamburg state, Germany) (inhabited place) Died: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

distinguished from ....	Hesse, Eva
..................................	(American conceptual artist and art historian, contemporary) [500357029]

fellow student of ....	Albers, Josef Yale University
..............................	(German-American painter and theorist, 1888-1976) [500033049]

spouse of ....	Doyle, Tom married in 1961
................	(American sculptor, 1928-2016) [500045753]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Hesse, Eva (I)

Biographies:

(American sculptor, born in Germany, 1936-1970) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Unknown artist) ..... [GRISC]
(American sculptor, 1936-1970) ..... [BHA]
(American sculptor 1936-1970) ..... [GRLPA]
(American artist, 1936-1970) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American sculptor, 1936-1970) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(artist, 1936-1970) ..... [GRL]
(American sculptor, 1936-1970) ..... [Grove Art]
(American sculptor, born in Germany, 1936-1970) ..... [NMWA]
(American artist, born Germany. 1936-1970) ..... [MoMA]
(American sculptor, born Germany, 1936-1970) ..... [IMJ]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

הסה, אווה ........	[IMJ]
..................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Eva Hesse ........	[GRISC, MoMA, VP]
....................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
....................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Hesse, Eva ........	[BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, NMWA Preferred, WCI Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
......................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................	Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
......................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
......................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
......................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
......................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83193496
......................	M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
......................	National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection Records
......................	NMWA database (2018-)
......................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[CL-Courtauld, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Bruce and Wells, Art and Context, the '50s and '60s (2006) 70

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