Studies for Repetition #19

1960s

Befriends LeWitt, Judd and Kusama

Back in New York after Yale, she grows close to the young minimalist artists Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd and Yayoi Kusama. Her friendship with LeWitt lasts to the end of her life; they wrote to each other often.

1966

Divorce from Tom Doyle

Her marriage to Tom Doyle, which had begun to fall apart already in Germany, ends in divorce.

October 1969

Diagnosis: a brain tumor

In October 1969 Hesse is diagnosed with a brain tumor; within a year she undergoes three unsuccessful operations.

1970

Interview on discrimination: excellence has no sex

In a 1970 interview with Cindy Nemser she says that discrimination in art is beaten by art itself: excellence has no sex. She regarded her work as feminine but denied that it made feminist statements.

1970年5月29日

Died