Inside - Outside

Herbert Carroll Cassill

This large intaglio, three feet wide, was done in 1963 in proofs only. The subject, like many of the Iowa printmakers, is introspective - two children standing in a void between two walls, one looking intently inward behind the wall, the other looking outward, wide eyed and cautious.

After studying art briefly at Purdue University in Indiana Herbert Cassell traveled to studiy printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky at the State University of Iowa, getting his BFA in 1948 and his MFA in 1950. He became an instructor at Iowa between 1953 and 1957. In 1952 he met and married fellow student Washington state native Jean Kubota, who had gotten her MA at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Both received Louis Comfort Tiffany Scholarships while at Iowa.

The Cassills moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1957, where Herbert taught printmaking at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Cassill alternated between figurative and abstract subjects and images, often of large size.