The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Test Proof

1949–50

Terry Haass

(Czech, 1923–2016)
Czechoslovakia
engraving, etching, aquatint
Plate: 15.1 x 22.5 cm (5 15/16 x 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 28.3 x 36.7 cm (11 1/8 x 14 7/16 in.)
Gift of Pete and Margaret Dobbins in honor of Emily Peters 2022.258
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The artist Terry Haass fled the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia during World War II, settling in New York in 1941.

Description

Test Proof is typical of Terry Haass’s early work at the New York print workshop founded by Stanley William Hayter, Atelier 17. She combined three different print techniques to create a combination of hard edges and emerging and disappearing forms.
  • ?-2022
    (Dolan/Maxwell, Inc., Philadelphia, PA), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    December 5, 2022-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.258