Hyman Warsager was raised in New York and attended Pratt Institute of Art, Grand Central School of Art and the American Artists School. He was active in the New York City WPA graphic arts division from 1935-1939. He was one of six artists working closely with Anthony Velonis to develop the silkscreen process, serigraphy. He left the WPA in 1939 and founded a commercial studio, Creative Printmakers Group, with Anthony Velonis and other colleagues. A year later, he along with other artists, co-founded the National Serigraph Society and in 1940, Warsager and Velonis invented a silk screening on glass process that they patented and eventually sold to VCA Corporation in 1969. His work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Arts Alliance, the Philadelphia Print Club, the San Francisco Art Association and the Chicago Art Institute. He was a regular contributor to the New Masses.