Frederick O'Hara

Frederick James O'Hara was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1904. He was a painter and printmaker whose work engaged with the concepts of abstraction. O'Hara was known primarily for his woodblock prints but was also a stone lithographer. He came to Albuquerque in 1942 and was a visiting professor at the University of New Mexico in 1949-1950. After this move to New Mexico he switched from painting to printmaking. He made many lithographs at Tamarind Institute in Los Angeles and Albuquerque. His work is part of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop Archive at MoMA. He passed away in La Jolla, California in 1980.