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The Hours of the Day

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The Hours of the Day (1994–2000), features twenty-four paintings, each one representing a single hour of the day.

The Hotel Vide: Ten Narrative Still Lifes

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A murder mystery in ten paintings.

The Seven Laughters of God

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A Young Painter Navigates the Pitfalls of the Creative Life

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Polished Works drawn in a variety of mediums.

The American Scene

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Paintings from Los Angeles in the 1980s

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Museum F. Scott Hess Museum

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Narrative Figure Paintings and Modern Allegories

You Can't Keep the President Waiting!
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I don’t usually get ideas for paintings in my dreams, but A Weight of Blue Sky was delivered to me nearly whole as a painting I was making for Ronald Reagan. I awoke with a start, and sketched it out. The only difference was this: in the dream the man in the painting had the legs of a chicken! I included those in the final piece, but tucked innocuously into the underbrush.

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Weightofbluesky

In F. Scott Hess Museum

I don’t usually get ideas for paintings in my dreams, but A Weight of Blue Sky was delivered to me nearly whole as a painting I was making for Ronald Reagan. I awoke with a start, and sketched it out. The only difference was this: ...

Objet New object A Weight of Blue Sky in F. Scott Hess Museum
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In F. Scott Hess Museum : The American Scene

F. Scott Hess (b. 1955)
A Weight of Blue Sky
1988
oil on canvas
72 × 96 inches

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In F. Scott Hess Museum : Recent Work

“I Will Give My Horses Sigh To The Birds”
This horse, this black horse, where is it galloping to?
Who is leading this horse?
Is the horse hers or not?
A black horse, somewhere, in some world, a woman, naked, white like an ang...

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In F. Scott Hess Museum

A comment I got on this piece said it looked like I had a ‘handful of hot coals’. I painted this in the bathroom, looking in the mirror where I brush my teeth. The cold outdoor light contrasts with the warm interior light co...

Objet New object Self Portrait with Up Turned Collar in F. Scott Hess Museum
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In F. Scott Hess Museum : Recent Work

F. Scott Hess (b. 1955)
Self-Portrait with Upturned Collar
2011
oil on aluminum panel
24 × 18 inches.
Private Collection

Announcement Announcement And the Winner Is...
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In F. Scott Hess Museum

The Winner of the F Scott Hess Museum’s 2nd Drawing for a Drawing is museum friend… Marisa! Congratulations!
For those who are crushed at not winning this time, Take Heart! The whole process repeats when the museum hits the ...

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In honor of my 201 F Scott Hess Museum friends I am having another random Drawing for a Drawing. One museum friend will receive a free drawing of their choice from Sketchbook #2, just posted. The drawing will occur at the end of March, w...

Objet New object Sketchbook #2 in F. Scott Hess Museum
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In F. Scott Hess Museum : Life Drawing

All twenty-four drawings attached to this object are from the same notebook, from various sittings from 1997.
Media is mostly pencil, with some ball point pen and ink brush pen thrown in for variety.

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In F. Scott Hess Museum

On a residency in Maine at the MacNamara Foundation in 2003, I painted The Mistress and Her Donkey and Fresnel’s Boots. I’d thought the donkey painting would take all six weeks of my stay, but with ten hours a day to paint, a...

Objet New object Fresnel's Boots in F. Scott Hess Museum
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In F. Scott Hess Museum : Collected Works

F. Scott Hess
Fresnel’s Boots
2003
oil on canvas
32 1/2 × 40 1/2 inches

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