An untitled abstraction from 1966 by Terry Haass. A deepbite color etchingwith a light blue/grey ink. Printed by the artist on a crem wove paper.

Terry Haass, nee Terezie Goldmannová (1923 - 2016). Terry Haass was a printmaker, painter, designer, and sculptor, was born in Cesky Tesin, Czechoslovakia. She with her mother and half-brother fled Czechoslovakia in 1938 due to the rise of anti-Semitism and, by way of Switzerland, found their way to France. In Paris, she studied fashion and art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière until she was once again displaced by war. In 1941, the family moved to the south of France and then were smuggled to Portugal where they were able to book passage to New York. They settled in the upper west side of Manhattan where she met and soon married Walter Haass, a German refugee. Terry Haass received a scholarship to the Art Students’ League where she studied printmaking with Will Barnet and Harry Sternberg. She began working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental workshop, Atelier 17, in 1947. Haass co-directed the workshop with artist Harry Hoehn in the spring and summer of 1951 when Hayter returned to Paris.