Susan Hertel: A Retrospective

This volume presents the first comprehensive survey of Susan Hertel (1930-1992), a Southwestern painter celebrated for finding the marvelous in the mundane. Her work, widely exhibited and collected, captures a world of joy and serenity in daily rituals, quiet moments, and the simple pleasures of work. Centered on the people, creatures, and ranches she loved most, her art is explored in an essay by Mary Davis MacNaughton, who places Hertel within the colorist tradition of Bonnard, Gauguin, and Matisse.