This volume is the first comprehensive survey of the art of Susan Hertel (1930-1992), a painter whose work has been widely exhibited and collected in the Southwest.Susan Hertel's art embodies what is marvelous in the mundane experiences of life. In her paintings and poems Hertel pictures a state of mind that finds joy and serenity in daily rituals, in the simple pleasures of work, and in quiet moments. Her art centers on the people, creatures, and places she most intimately knew: her five children, a menagerie of animals -- horses, dogs, cats, goats -- and her ranches in Glendora, California, and Cerrillos, New Mexico. An essay by Mary Davis MacNaughton examines the major themes and stylistic development of Hertel's art, and discusses her intimate family subjects and emotional expression through color in the tradition of French painters Bonnard, Gauguin, and Matisse.

Susan Hertel: A Retrospective

Arts & Photography

Hertel, Susan

MacNaughton, Mary Davis

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College

History & Criticism

Univ of Washington Pr

<p>Poetry. Art. Her poems are like entries in an intimate journal; expression of her heart's passions and sorrows. And it is with profound grief and great love that we dedicate this book to our mother -- Katy, Clare and Paula. This collection of very human short poems, along with drawings and paintings by the author, serve as a testimony and memorial to a deeply felt, literate life. I clean the red clay / off my mare's hooves / with a white stone / or a green one. / All seems so precious -- the stones, / red earth, round hooves (I Clean the Red Clay). One of life's great features is the category of the irrepalceable. That moment that can't be repeated or matched. That subject that money can't buy. That joy that can't quite be described. That person who can't be forgotten. Susan is all of these things and more -- Robert Redford. Illustrated with black &amp; white and color plates.</p>

All This Change

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Blackberry Books

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