About Us

Krisel Ink is a family-owned business, created to celebrate and share the artwork of our late grandfather, Harold Krisel with many around the world. Our products and accessories bring Krisel's art to life on different canvases and into your everyday life. We hope his artwork brings as much joy to you as it does to us! 

Harold Krisel (1920 - 1995)

Harold Krisel was born in 1920 in Brooklyn, NY and his passion for creating art began at an early age. In the 1930’s, as a teenager he received a scholarship to The American Artist School in NYC. Krisel went on to draw weather maps for the US Army Air Force from 1942-1946 and studied architecture at the Chicago Institute of Design’s New Bauhaus from 1946-949. He became a member of American Abstract Artists in 1946 and retained this membership for the duration of his life. Krisel completed his graduate studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1952. He then worked as an architect at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in New York City until 1966, when he joined the faculty of the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan where he taught architecture until his retirement in 1981.

Once retired, Krisel pursued his lifelong dream of dedicating himself full time to the fine arts in a studio that he designed, where he worked on commissioned sculpture, fountains, and graphics in his studio in Bridgehampton, Long Island. 

Krisel’s limited-edition silkscreens are colorful and imaginative. Hand-created by Krisel, and lovingly named by his wife and muse Rose, the original silkscreens light up the spaces in which they are displayed.

His work is in the permanent collections of:
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum of Modern Art
• Whitney Museum
• Guggenheim Museum
• Houston Museum of Fine Arts
• British Museum (London)
• Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris)
• Walter P. Chrysler Museum
• Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art
• Baltimore Museum of Art
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Trinity College (Dublin)
• Yale University Art Gallery
• Princeton University Library

Krisel’s work may be seen on the walls at the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport, the sculpture on Butler Circle on the Wofford College Campus, and now through a generous donation of forty prints by his estate, the permanent collection of the Spartanburg Art Museum.

In addition, an extensive collection of his designs adorns the walls of the Milliken & Company textile facilities in Spartanburg, South Carolina. In May of 2009, Krisel’s work was shown in a retrospective of his early abstract works at the Thomas McCormick Gallery in Chicago, exclusively exhibiting his talent in a one-man show.