Beth Van Hoesen

[1] After graduation, she continued her studies in France at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Fontainbleau (1948), the Académie Julian (1948 to 1950), and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière (1948 to 1950).

[1] In 1951, she enrolled in the California School of Fine Arts, where she studied under the painters David Park and Clyfford Still.

[2][5] In the 1970s, she was diagnosed with depression; it severely affected her ability to draw for a time, and she began to keep a diary, which was published in 1975.

In the early 1980s, a traveling exhibition of her work was organized by the Art Museum Association; it toured the United States for three years.

[8] At their home in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood, where she lived for nearly 50 years, Van Hoesen and Adams hosted a weekly drawing group attended by artists such as Wayne Thiebaud and Theophilus Brown.