Karl Schrag, Wind in the Orchard, Oaxaca, 1963, Oil on canvas, Gift of Kraushaar Galleries, New York, New York, to the Art in Embassies in Program, Washington, D.C.

Karl Schrag was an artist all his life, drawing and painting in earnest from the age of four. He trained in Geneva and Paris, came to New York in 1938 as a young man in his twenties and after studying printmaking at the Art Students League joined the prestigious Atelier 17 in Greenwich Village. There he was a leading light among the group of artists who changed the direction of intaglio printmaking in America and within ten years of joining he was appointed director of the Atelier. He later taught briefly at Brooklyn College and for 14 years at the Cooper Union School of Art.Karl “Schrag was an artist all his life, drawing and painting in earnest from the age of four. He trained in Geneva and Paris, came to New York in 1938 as a young man in his twenties and after studying printmaking at the Art Students League joined the prestigious Atelier 17 in Greenwich Village. There he was a leading light among the group of artists who changed the direction of intaglio printmaking in America and within ten years of joining he was appointed director of the Atelier. He later taught briefly at Brooklyn College and for 14 years at the Cooper Union School of Art…”(more)