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112 Prince Street New York City, NY. (1975)

Oil paint on brick and cement, 8,970 square feet

Commissioned by Citywalls, Inc., New York

Executed by Van Wagner Outdoor Advertising, New York City, New York

The cast iron wall of the front of this building is repeated in the mural on its east wall. The mural also incorporates two pre-existing windows and features a cat painted into another window. This was the first outdoor mural completed by the artist and was coordinated by Doris Freedman, the director of Citywalls, who was instrumental in launching many of the artist's early projects.

Peck Slip Arcade South Street Seaport, New York, NY. (1978)

Oil paint on brick, 6000 square feet

Commissioned by Consolidated Edison

Coordinated by Citywalls, Inc. (New York, NY)

Executed by Seaboard Outdoor Advertising (New York, NY)

Trompe l'oeil facades and a view of the nearby Brooklyn Bridge, appropriate to early nineteenth century New York, cover the south wall of this Con-Ed substation.

Boston Architectural Center Boston, MA. (1977)

Oil

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Richard Haas

Richard Haas was born in 1936 in Spring Green Wisconsin. He grew up in Milwaukee after his family moved there during WWII. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1954 till his graduation in 1959 with a Bachelor in Art and Art Education degree. During the summer months of 1955 and 1956, however, he returned to his native Spring Green to work as a stonemason assistant to his great uncle, George Haas, who was the Master Stonemason at Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. His residence there allowed him to observe all aspects of Mr. Wright’s and the Fellowship’s activities.At UWM his primary instructors included Joseph Friebert in painting and Robert Von Neuman in printmaking. After a short term as an infantry officer he returned to Milwaukee as an art instructor in an inner city secondary school and took graduate work in art at UWM. His professors included Jack Tworkov who was a visiting professor in 1960. In l961 he moved to Minneapolis where he been work on his MFA degree and remained there as a student and later as an instructor at the University a

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Richard Haas

American muralist (born 1936)

This article is about the American artist. For the American diplomat, see Richard N. Haass.

Richard Haas
Born	Richard John Haas (1936-08-29) August 29, 1936 (age 88) Spring Green, Wisconsin, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Known for	Mural

Richard John Haas (born August 29, 1936) is an American muralist who is best known for architectural murals and his use of the trompe-l'œil style. Haas has a 1959 B.S. from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a 1964 M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota.

Works

Haas's 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 College, the former Edison Brothers Shoe Storage building, now a Red Lion Hotel in St. Louis, the Kroeger Building in Cincinnati (Homage to Cincinnatus), the Oregon Historica