%C2%A9 Richard J. Haas %2F Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C NY
Woodcutexpand_more
Gift of the artistexpand_more 2019.153.3
Richard Haas gained fame in the 1970s for his enormous outdoor murals that transformed blank, drab building facades into grand architectural fantasies. In the early to mid-1960s, he was a graduate student and instructor at the University of Minnesota. In 2019, he wrote “I have always retained a strong and positive memory of your city and especially of your institution which I visited on a regular basis and where I learned so much about the history of art.”
In preparation for cutting his printing block for this woodcut, Haas chose to freely paint the composition with a Japanese brush rather than carefully drawing it with a pencil. The result is tension between representation and abstraction.
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© Richard J. Haas / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY