Hess Collection Audio Tour

Donald Hess discusses Ivory Coast Artist Ouattara Watts

Trained as a concert pianist, Frederick discusses her growth from musician to painter.

Robert Rauschenberg reacts to what he saw as the United States’s Imperial aspirations.

Donald Hess on Rauschenberg's overnight fame

End VersionHow Donald Hess and Hifumi Ogawa met

EhrdbildAn artist changes the business principles of his patron by refusing to sell him his work.

WoodcutsFranz Gertsch's enormous woodcuts show a delicacy that and precision that belies their size. Robert Ceballos discusses the process of making a woodcut.

Johanna 2Franz Gertsch and on e of the Icons of the Hess Art Collection

CrowdA polish artist creates works that express her experiences growing up in communist Poland.

Robilee Frederick discusses how she came to meet Donald Hess.

Robilee Frederick on Her ArtNapa artist, and “late bloomer” Robilee Frederick discusses her art and how she would classify her art.

From the Ladder Series"And he dreamed and beheld a ladder set up on earth and the top of it reached into heaven" The ladder as metaphor for reaching higher.

Successful ArtistWho says artists only become famous after death? Many artists are successful markers of themselves. Robert Ceballos discusses this notion.

DiversityRobert Raushenberg in search of diversity and continual artistic investigations. Director, Robert Ceballos talks about conceptual art and the beauty of functional form in every day disposable objects.

A Dutch painter addresses his memories of German occupation in world war two.

Study of a man talking to himself

Seeing is not always believing. A Markus Raetz visual conundrum pays Hommage to a famous Joseph Beuys performance piece involving gold leaf, honey and a dead hare.