Rocks and Trees

 

Hildegarde Haas

  1926 - 2002 (biography)

1948  

color woodcut 

16 x 9" 1/2" image 

pencil, lower right 

7 of 12  

titled, lower left; dated after the signature 

 

ivory wove Japanese 

published 

artist 

11173 

$500.00 

Hildegarde Haas was born in Frankfort, Germany on April 19, 1926. Her parents moved to the U.S. in 1937. Her education included summer classes at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center followed by two years at the University of Chicago. Receiving a scholarship to the Art Students League, she studied under Vaclav Vytlacil and Morris Kantor. She was completely self-taught as a printmaker and explored the woodcut medium with other students at the ASL and "learned as she went." Haas was a member of The Printmakers, an established group of New York graphic artists whose ranks included Ross Abrams, Seong Moy, William Rose, Peter Kahn, Ruben Reif, Jim Forsberg, Wolf Kahn, Dorothy Morton, and Aaron Kurzen.