September 13, 2007

• Battlefield Geometry continued:

  Lease Renewed

  
  The New York Times,
  Thursday, September 13, 2007–

  Burt Hasen, Artist Inspired
  by Maps, Dies at 85

  By ROBERTA SMITH

  Burt Hasen, a New York
  painter who drew inspiration from his experience working with maps as a
  military technician during World War II, died on Friday [September 7, 2007] in Manhattan.
  He was 85 and lived in Lower Manhattan….

  During the war he served in the Air Force in the Pacific, where his
  duties involved close study of aerial maps, an activity that lastingly
  influenced his work. His densely worked canvases often had an overhead
  perspective….Toward the end of his life,
  many of his seemingly abstract paintings were based directly, and in
  detail, on maps….

  In 2006 Mr. Hasen, his wife and the other tenants of a five-story
  building at 7 Dutch Street near the South Street Seaport made news when
  they organized against their landlord’s attempt to evict them from the
  rent-regulated lofts they had occupied for more than 30 years. They
  subsequently had their leases renewed.

  

  “For every kind of vampire,
  there is a kind of cross.”
  – Gravity’s Rainbow

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