Artwork copyright Judith Hahn. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Artwork copyright Judith Hahn. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Artwork copyright Judith Hahn. Photo courtesy of the artist.

One Amaryllis, 1995

Judith Hahn
American (born 1941, died 1999)

Location: Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia

About the Artwork

One Amaryllis is a two-panel painting by artist Judith Hahn. The imagery is based on a photograph that she took while visiting Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. She described this artwork as a "visual palindrome, with the left-hand panel being an enlarged version of the right, without the amaryllis blossom."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Washington State Arts Commission.

About the Artist

Painter and printmaker Judith Hahn (1941-1999) was interested in color and light, as seen in nature.
Hahn lived and worked in Woodinville, Western Washington. Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1981 at age forty, her artistic process and style evolved to accommodate her physical limitations. Using a wheelchair limited her range of motion and the size of the artworks that she could create. As a result, she started created diptychs, or two-panel artworks, where she could combine two panels to make one larger artwork. She noted, "Because my disability severely limits my mobility, I work (in studio) from photographs we take in the field, although I often use only part of a photographic image, or combine several."
Hahn earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Illinois and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Michigan State University. During the 1990s, several of her artworks were donated to support the Multiple Sclerosis Society.