Ocean Shores
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- Title Ocean Shores
- Category Drawing
- Medium Graphite on paper
- Medium Landscape, Pacific Northwest (subject or artist), Water
- Dimensions 10.25"h x 15.75"w
- Framed Dimensions 20.25"h x 27.25"w
- Year Completed Undated
- Notes Pauline Haas, born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1922, was an extremely talented artist and teacher in the Pacific Northwest. Haas began her formal training in art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and earned her BFA and MFA from Indiana University in 1944. She met her husband, Garland (Gus) Haas, and the two married in 1944. They moved to Spokane for a job offered to Gus Haas at Eastern Washington University. They later moved to Seattle where they served as missionaries for Laurelhurst Presbyterian Church for four years in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. After returning to the U.S., they taught at Whitworth College, Pauline teaching Art while her husband taught Political Science. She began teaching in 1961, and later became department head, retiring in 1985. Pauline mentored students, faculty and community members who joined her for regular group critiques after her retirement and she held the title Professor Emeritus of Art. Her artworks explored the beauty and meaning of nature; “nature is still, for me, the most inspiring and yet incomprehensible subject matter.” She was inventive and developed different methods to accomplish her vision. Using pencil, ink, paints, pastels and mixed media, which she started using around 2000. Haas died in 2015.
- Artist Pauline Haas American Professor Emeritus of Art (1964-1986) 1922-2015
- Credit Gift of the Knox Presbyterian Church
- Location Lindaman Reception
- Accession Number 2022.0096
- Status Checked Out
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