Richard Haas

Artist

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Richard John Haas is an American muralist who is best known for architectural murals and his use of the trompe-l'œil style. His murals have been commissioned for interiors and exteriors of numerous public and private buildings in the United States. In 1975 Haas painted his first outside mural, a trompe l'oeil version of a cast iron facade on a blank brick side wall of a building at 112 Prince Street. Since then, he has been exploring the intersection of art and architecture through a series of illusionistic murals. By marrying the painted architecture as closely as possible to the existing architecture, he endeavors to make the encounter with the painting as "plausible" as possible, to make one feel that it belongs where it is, that it was always part of the natural cityscape. Called "an architect in all but name" and a "building doctor" by Paul Goldberger in the NY Times, he has won the Doris C. Freedman Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the AIA Medal of Honor. His work has been the subject of several books, countless exhibitions, and a film.

Born, 1936

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Timeline

1975+ 1

1977

1979

1982

1983+ 1

1986

1989

1990+ 1

1993

1998

2003

2004

SITES

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Untitled I and Untitled II

Richard Haas, Iowa Art in State Buildings Program, University Museums, Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

Mural (painted)

Eight Manhattan Views

Richard Haas

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Murals at Rose Lobby

Richard Haas, City of Pasadena Public Art Program

Pasadena, California

Mural (painted)

West Facade of Boston Architectural Center

Richard Haas

Boston, Massachusetts

Mural (painted)

Murals at DeWitt Clinton Periodical Reading Room

Richard Haas

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Murals at Chestnut Street

Richard Haas

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mural (painted)

Bar Association Lobby Murals

Richard Haas

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Untitled

Richard Haas, City of Pasadena Public Art Program

Pasadena, California

Fountain

Untitled Mural at Fulton Theater

Richard Haas, Pittsburgh Art in Public Places

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mural (painted)

Mural on Con Ed Substation

Richard Haas

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Glockenspiel Mural

Richard Haas

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Philip Morris World Headquarters Dining Room

Richard Haas, Ulrich Franzen & Assocs.

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Immigration on the Lower East Side

Richard Haas, Percent for Art New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Cast Iron Trompe L'Oeil Facade

Richard Haas

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Alwyn Court Atrium Murals

Richard Haas

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS

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Richard Haas at the Artists In Place event, 2008

PLAYLISTS CURATED by Richard Haas

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Podcasts

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Mural on Con Ed Substation

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Bar Association Lobby Murals

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Philip Morris World Headquarters Dining Room

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Glockenspiel Mural

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Murals at DeWitt Clinton Periodical Reading Room

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Immigration on the Lower East Side

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Eight Manhattan Views

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Cast Iron Trompe L'Oeil Facade

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Alwyn Court Atrium Murals

New York City, New York

Mural (painted)

Gardens of Villandry and Gardens at Chenonceaux

Los Angeles, California

Mosaic

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