Richard Haas Figurative Prints

Richard Haas, 'Copley Square, Boston', color etching and aquatint, 1993, edition 65. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '25/65' in pencil. A superb impr...

Richard Haas Bayard-Condict Building (65 Bleeker Street, New York City), 1970 Drypoint etching on wove paper Hand signed, numbered 16/30, dated and titled by the artist on the lower front Vintage frame included This is a limited edition (only 30) early drypoint which Richard Haas, the world's foremost architectural muralist and trompe d'oeil artist, published himself in collaboration with the famed master printer Catherine Mosely. This work was done around the time Richard Haas first moved to the city from Bennington College (where he was a professor), and he became fascinated with New York City's architecture. Haas was in particular enamored by the architect Louis Sullivan who designed the Bayard-Condict building at 65 Bleecker Street between Broadway and Lafayette Street, at the head of Crosby Street...

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...