Richard Haas Landscape Prints

Grand Central Station Etching, 1972 Edition: 60 (6/60) see photo Signed, titled, and editioned in pencil by the artist Published by Brooke Alexander, New York Printer: jennifer Melby, New York Provenance: Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY (until 1979; label verso) Reader's Digest Association (Inventory #17029; label verso) Facade from Park Avenue South looking north toward the Met Life Building Condition: Very good Plate: 14 3/4 x 19 5/8"; Frame: 24 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 2" Richard Haas (American, b.1936) is a practitioner of the trompe l'oeil artistic style, a technique that uses realistic images in a way that tricks the eye into perceiving the painting in three dimensions. Haas has painted hundreds of murals that incorporate trompe l'oeil methods in the depiction of the architectural features of the building. He was born in Spring Greene but grew up in Milwaukee, WI. He graduated in 1959 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Bachelor in Art. Instructors for his courses included Joseph Friebert (American, 1908–2002) and Robert Von Neuman (German, 1888–1976). Haas returned to his birthplace to work as a helper for his stonemason uncle, and he had an opportunity to view the work of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867–1959). He spent several years as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan before he moved to New York City in 1968. Haas spent 10 years teaching at Vermont's Bennington College, splitting his time between the school and New York. Haas worked for many years as an Abstract painter who used traditional canvas media. He later developed an interest in drawing and etching the details of late 19th century and early 20th century New York City buildings. The artist’s first outdoor mural, a commission to paint the cast iron façade at the corner of Prince Street and Greene Street, was completed in 1975. His other notable murals include Fort Worth, Texas' Homage to Chisholm Trail...

Manhattan View, Battery Park 1980 Photo-etching with aquatint in colors, on Arches Cover paper, with full margins, I. 21 1/4 x 42 3/8 in. (54 x 107.6 cm) S. 26 5/8 x 47 7/8 in. (67.6 x 121.6 cm) Hand signed, titled, and numbered 18/78 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York, unframed. RICHARD JOHN HAAS Richard Haas (1936-) is an American muralist and painter who is best known for architectural murals and his use of the trompe l'oeil style. His urban architecture murals have been commissioned for interiors and exteriors of numerous public and private buildings in the United States. Exterior projects include Chase Field; the Robert C. Byrd Federal Building & Courthouse in Beckley, West Virginia, The Boston Architectural Center, The former Edison Brothers Shoe Storage building, now a Red Lion Hotel in Saint Louis, MO, The Kroeger Building in Cincinnati (Homage to Cincinnatus) The Portland Historical Society, 23rd and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia, Sundance Square in Fort Worth, Multiple facades in Homewood, IL, the corner of 83rd and York in New York City, a mural on the Con Edison Substation in Peck Slip, New York featuring the Brooklyn Bridge and the former Board of Education building in Brooklyn, NY. Interiors include the New York Public Library Main Branch; the Lakewood Public Library (Ohio); the [[Sarasota County Judicial Center in Florida, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 101 Merrimac Building, Boston, the Federal Courthouse in Beckley West VA, The Federal Courthouse and Federal Building in Kansas City, KS, The Nashville Public Library history murals and many others. At 1211 North LaSalle Street on Chicago’s Near North Side, a 16-story 1929 apartment hotel converted into a 1981 apartment building, was used for trompe-l'œil murals in homage to Chicago School architecture. One of the building's sides features the Chicago Board of Trade Building, intended as a reflection of the actual building two miles (3 km) south. Haas is ranked by the Artists Trade Union of Russia amongst the world-best artists of the last four centuries. Originally from Wisconsin, Haas began large-scale outdoor murals in the 1970s in New York City. His murals can be seen in Boston, Chicago, Ft. Worth, Madison, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland (Oregon), and St. Louis as well as a variety of smaller cities. (from Smithsonian) Haas had a family connection to Frank Lloyd Wright; attending Taliesin for two summers in 1955 and '56; Met Joseph Friebert while an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Influenced by Abstract Expressionism and Post-Impressionism, saw the murals of Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry; met Jack Tworkov and Peter Busa; Haas speaks about fellow artists Richard Serra, James Rosenquist, Malcolm Myers...

Artist: Richard Haas Title: Old Waterworks, Philadelphia Year: 1977 Medium: Lithograph, signed, numbered, and titled pencil Edition:232/235 Image Size: 17.5 x 25.5 inches Paper Size...

Artist: Richard Haas Title: Center Theater Facade, Milwaukee Year: 1989 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 86/100 Size: 41 x 29 inches

Artist: Richard Haas, American (1936 - ) Title: Chrysler Building Year: 1997 Medium: Lithograph and Silkscreen on Aluminum, signed and numbered in ma...

Artist: Richard Haas, American (1936 - ) Title: Empire State Building Year: 1997 Medium: Lithograph and Silkscreen on Aluminum, signed and number...

"57th Street Looking East" was the 2007 selection of the Print Club of New York. Impressions of this image are in the museum collections of: Delaware Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Art and the Block Museum of Northwestern University. "57th Street Looking East" is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint of modern Manhattan by famed mural artist and printmaker, Richard Haas. The view, from Sixth Avenue looking east, is one the artist has painted several times. Haas worked on the print during a residency at the McDowell Art Colony in New Hampshire. He said he chose the subject because “there is no street quite like 57th Street.” In the vertical composition, the Fuller Building, the Ritz Tower and the IBM Building are seen in late afternoon sun with a rush hour traffic jam filling the busy street. Haas became interested in printmaking in the 1950s while a student and is the subject of a catalogue raisonné by Marilyn Kushner entitled "The Prints of Richard Haas, 1970 – 2004" (John Szoke Editions, 2005). He is best known for his architectural studies, which he began in the early 1970s with views that he saw out of his Broome Street studio’s windows in SoHo. However, architecture is also in his blood; his Uncle George worked as a stone mason for Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin, and Haas assisted him there for several summers in the 1950s. Indeed, the artist briefly considered studying architecture before settling on art and art education. His mural work, which has brought him international acclaim, began in the mid 1970s and has led to the creation of numerous trompe l’oeil masterpieces, such as his West Façade, Boston Architectural Center (1989) and Chisholm Trail...

Artist: Richard Haas, American (1936 - ) Title: Dallas Skyline Year: 1989 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: SPI 2 Im...

Artist: Richard Haas, American (1936 - ) Title: General Electric Building (Blue) Year: 2005 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 30 Image Size: 20 x 16 inches...

Artist: Richard Haas, American (1936 - ) Title: American Radiator Building (Blue) Year: 2005 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 30 Image Size: 20 x 16 inche...