Eva Hesse Page #2

We become a painter.

SUSSMAN:
She finished art school

at the end of the 'SOs

and she went from Yale

into New York in 1960.

Kennedy had been elected.

This was really the dawn of a new age.

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

HESSE:
I've moved so rapidly.

I feel so alive.

I'm almost too anxious for every moment

and every future moment.

Being an artist in New York City

in the '60s was totally wonderful.

It was a great time.

In almost all facets of work

and music, literature, poetry,

but particularly in painting,

everything was opening up.

There was a feeling like

we were reinventing painting.

HESSE". I will abandon restrictions

and curbs imposed on myself.

I will strip me of

superficial dishonesiies.

I will paint against every rule.

And you have to understand

that that time,

there wasn't any art world.

There were people making work

for themselves and for each other.

And there wasn't any product.

Commodification hadn't happened.

The art world hadn't been

taken over by collectors.

No one was thinking about how much

money they were going to make.

It was all dedicating

your life to your work.

And I know that Eva felt that way, too.

HESSE". Only painting can

now see me through.

It is totally interdependent

with my entire being.

H is what I have found through

which I can express myself.

SOL LEWITT:

She came to New York and I met her.

She'd just gotten out of Yale.

Eva was very pretty and cute,

very alive and hip, and knew a lot

of people because of being at Yale.

I recognized that she had

something extraordinary about her work.

HESSE". I'm beginning to sell

and show my work,

in that order.

One gave me the confidence

to proceed to the other.

International Watercolor Show

at the Brooklyn Museum

and 3 young Americans,

my show last evening.

It is the beginning of being fully

in the midst of the art world.

I've been with Tom Doyle

the last three days.

I'm really so happy.

There was a party held at

this friend of mine's place.

And I was in a fight.

This guy was making out

with my girlfriend,

so I hit him.

Eva was at the party

and she took me in the kitchen

and washed my face,

and she was very nice to me, you know.

And that was the first time I met her.

HESSE". Tom is a beautiful human being

and I enjoy all aspects of him.

H is a real, live

and beautiful romance.

Tom was a wonderful, lively, poetic,

funny Irish drunk at that point.

GOLDMAN:
She was warned against him,

that he comes from a very wild crowd,

really Wasn't good for her.

But he gave her something

that she very much needed.

HESSE:
I feel he's really with me

and I am with him.

I have never felt this before.

That summer, Eva and Tom

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