GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Like much of Hildegarde Haas’s work, Fog is a landscape that has been abstracted into its basic formal elements. Vegetation is represented through fields of textured color, and trees have been reduced to black lines. Incidentally, the trees also resemble musical notes on a staff, reflecting Haas’s interest in music. She considered her work to be synesthetic in nature, equating sounds with color and forms.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Haas studied art at the Art Students League in New York, where she encountered the abstract compositions of German and Russian modernism. Initially a painter, Haas taught herself to make woodblock prints. She exhibited her work with other New York printmakers before relocating to California.
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Sara Woodbury, DMA label text, 2011.
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Created 1950
April 2011
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Haas, Hildegaard (American, 1926-2002)
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Place of origin: New York (New York/United States): TGN: 7007567
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From 1954: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Olmsted-Kirk Company Prize, 1st Dallas National Print Exhibition. [1]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC~View another work by Hildegaard Haas.
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General Description
Like much of Hildegarde Haas’s work, Fog is a landscape that has been abstracted into its basic formal elements. Vegetation is represented through fields of textured color, and trees have been reduced to black lines. Incidentally, the trees also resemble musical notes on a staff, reflecting Haas’s interest in music. She considered her work to be synesthetic in nature, equating sounds with color and forms.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Haas studied art at the Art Students League in New York, where she encountered the abstract compositions of German and Russian modernism. Initially a painter, Haas taught herself to make woodblock prints. She exhibited her work with other New York printmakers before relocating to California.
Excerpt from
Sara Woodbury, DMA label text, 2011.
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Notes
Created 1950
April 2011
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Haas, Hildegaard (American, 1926-2002)
Cultures
Geography
Place of origin: New York (New York/United States): TGN: 7007567
Process/materials
Color woodcut
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 1954: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Olmsted-Kirk Company Prize, 1st Dallas National Print Exhibition. [1]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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