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historical documents, weapons, sculpture, and antique artifacts, all appearing as authentic items from their specified time period. Hess lays no claim to the creation of the artifacts in The
Paternal Suit, but acts instead as the collecting Director of his own Family Foundation, dedicated to assembling a visual historical narrative of Hess' paternal line that includes United States Senator
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F. Scott Hess was born in
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The objects in The
Paternal Suit tell the true story of Hess' ancestry in America as seen through the eyes of four centuries of artists and craftsmen, all of whom may or may not have existed. The collection holds more than one hundred objects, including paintings, old photographs, ceramics,
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F. Scott Hess's first solo exhibition was at
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F. Scott Hess describes his stunning cycle of paintings on view at the Orange County Museum of Art as "prayers for atheists." They are religious paintings, he says, "bereft of God but searching for the core of what it means to be
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suggests, "Hess uses profane realism to represent the sacred moments of life, for he knows we live in a profane world with little or no sense of the sacred, let alone of the sacredness of art".
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