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Sally Haley    Images  |  Bio

Born: Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1908
Died: Portland, Oregon, 2007

EDUCATION

Yale University, B.F.A., 1931

AWARDS

The Hubbard Award, nomination, Hubbard Museum, Ruidoso Downs, NM 1989
Oregon Governor’s Award for the Arts, State of Oregon 1989
Women of Achievement Award for Artistic Excellence, YWCA, Portland, OR 1988

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

“Memorial Exhibition,” Office of the Governor of Oregon, Salem, OR 2007
The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1990, 1993, 1997
Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR, retrospective 1993
The Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR 1962, 1972, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985
Catlin Gabel School, Portland, OR, retrospective 1985
A.N. Bush Gallery, Salem, OR 1984
"Images Past & Present by Sally Haley," Wentz Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 1984
Oregon State Capitol, Governor's Office, Salem, OR 1976
Woodside Gallery, Seattle, WA 1976, 1979, 1971
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, retrospective and catalogue 1975
Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts, Maryhill, WA 1975
Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR 1965
Portland Art Museum, OR 1960
Mattatuck Historical Society, Waterbury, CT 1942, 1943, 1944
Peacock Alley, Bridgeport, CT 1939, 1938, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946
Stavola Gallery, Hartford, CT 1934

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

“The Drawn Line,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 2007
“20th Anniversary Group Show,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006
?Early Northwest Artists,? The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006
“This Bountiful Place: Art About Agriculture~The Permanent Collection,” Oregon Historical Society
and Oregon State University 2006
“Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism,” The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
and Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA (catalog) 2004-2005
“The Saward Collection, Premier Northwest Artists of the Mid-20th Century,” Kaiser Permanente
Center for Health Research, Portland, OR 2004
The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2002
“15th Anniversary Group Show,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2001
“Early Works by Oregon Artists,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2000
“Wonder Women,” The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR 2000
"Interior Pauses: NW Contemporary Realism," Maryhill Museum, Goldendale, WA 1998
"Spirit Birds and Familiar Objects," 2-person Exhibition with James Washington Jr.,
Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA 1997
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR 1995
"Jet Dreams: Art of the Fifties in the Pacific Northwest," Tacoma
Art Museum, WA and Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR 1995
"New to the Northwest Collection," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 1995
"Crosscut: Contemporary Art from Oregon," Portland Art Museum, OR 1993
"Portland Collects," Portland Art Museum, OR 1993
Multnomah Athletic Club Art Show, Portland, OR 1992
"Art of the Northwest," Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR 1990
Hubbard Museum, Ruidoso Downs, NM 1988, 1989, 1990
"Oregon Women Artists," Littman Gallery, Portland State University, OR 1988
"Northwest '87," Seattle Art Museum, WA 1987
Lynn McAllister Gallery, Seattle, WA 1987
“Mountain High VI: 50 Works of Art,” Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood, OR 1987
Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA 1977
"The Seattle Invitational," Seattle Center Art Pavilion, Seattle, WA 1976
Francis J. Newton's Collection, Bush House, Salem Art Association, OR 1964
The Third Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition (traveling exhibition) 1960
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1956, 1957
"Reality and Fantasy 1900-1954," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 1954
San Francisco Museum of Art, CA 1949
"24 New England Painters," Stewart Gallery, Boston, MA 1947

COLLECTIONS

American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York, NY
Barby Investment Company, Portland, OR
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, CA
Harsch Investment Corporation, Portland, OR
Hoffman Industries, Portland, OR
Kaiser Foundation, Portland, OR
Multnomah Athletic Club, Portland, OR
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Pacific First Bank, Portland, OR
Pacific Northwest Bell, Seattle, WA
People's Bank, Seattle, WA
Phillip Morris Collection, Albany, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Portland Civic Auditorium, Portland, OR
Promotion Products, Portland, OR
Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
Safeco Corporation, Seattle, WA
Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc., Portland, OR
State of Oregon Capitol Building, Salem, OR
Stoel, Rives, Boley, Jones & Grey, Portland, OR
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Tonkon, Torp, Galen, Marmaduke and Booth, Portland, OR
Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA
Willamette University, Salem, OR

PUBLICATIONS

“The Marylhurst University Sixth Annual Women of Distinction Luncheon,” cover illustration for Program,
October 10, 2007
“Words to live by, an artist to emulate,” The Oregonian, September 21, 2007, A & E, p. 39
Row, D.K. “Painter Sally Haley is Dead at 99,” The Oregonian, September 3, 2007, pp. B1, B6
Row, D.K. “Laura Russo toasts 20 years atop Portland’s Art World,” The Sunday Oregonian, October 15, 2006,
pp. O1 and O11
Culverwell, Wendy, “You gotta have art,” Portland Executive Home and Life, Fall 2006, pp. 10, 54-55
Curtis, Shelley, This Bountiful Place: Art About Agriculture ~ The Permanent Collection, College of
Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, 2006, color catalogue, p. 21
Curtis, Shelley, “Art About Agriculture: A Retrospective,” Oregon Historical Quarterly, Summer 2006,
Volume 107, Number 2, pp. 278-289
Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR, exhibition catalog, 2004, pp. 8-9
Blake, Victoria, "Minimalist 'Matriarchs'" The Oregonian, October 15, 2004, A&E "Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism," MoNA Now, newsletter of the Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner,
WA, Fall 2004, p. 2, and Winter 2005, p. 1
Row, D.K., “Visual Visionaries,” The Oregonian A & E, cover story, September 19, 2003, pp. 4-14
Hackett, Regina, “New, Remade Buildings Tower Above Year’s Art,” Seattle Post Intelligencer,
January 2, 1998
DeFalla, Josie, “Realism Exhibit Brings 10 Northwest Artists to Maryhill,” The Dalles Chronicle,
February 23, 1998
Walbeck, Nancy, “Visual Arts, Galleries ‘Sparkle’,” Anacortes American, December 31, 1997
Hackett, Regina, “Art Review,” Seattle Post Intelligencer, November 7, 1997
Friedman, Ann, “Northwest Art Calls La Conner Home,” Bellingham Herald, October 9, 1997, pp. C1, C3
Walbeck, Nancy, “Spiritual Works Celebrated at MoNA.” Anacortes American, October, 1997
Failing, Patricia, “Necessity Is the Mother of Reinvention,” ARTnews, December, 1997, pp. 62, 64
“Visual Arts,” Willamette Week, August 6, 1997, p. 57
“Laura Russo Gallery,” Ourtown, August 4, 1997
Gragg, Randy, “Tip Sheet,” The Oregonian, August 22, 1997, p. 62
Portland Downtowner, August 23, 1997, Cover Art
Johns, Barbara, Jet Dreams, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, exhibition catalogue, University of
Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 1995
Lois Allan, Contemporary Art in the Northwest, University of Toronto Press, Buffalo, NY, 1995
PUBLICATIONS (continued)

Hopkins, Terri, Sally Haley: A Lifetime of Painting, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR,
exhibition catalogue, January/March, 1993
Gragg, Randy, "The Age of Haley," The Oregonian, January 31, 1993, pp. D1, D6
“The Art of Haley,” The Marylhurst College Mirror, Marylhurst, OR, 1993
Gragg, Randy, “Sally Haley: A Lifetime of Painting,” The Oregonian, January 29, 1993, p. R19
Duckler, Garrick, ?WW Art Choice,? Willamette Week, February 4-10, 1993, Allen, Lois, ?Westcoast Elders Filtering Experience,? Reflex, March/April, 1993 Burnsman, Laura & Ruth Askey, Modernism and Beyond: Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest,
Midmarch Arts Press, New York, 1993
Mershon, Helen, “Well-Wishers Swell First Thursday Crowd,” The Oregonian, September 12, 1993
Gragg, Randy, “Eve of Artistic Convergence,” The Oregonian, September 1, 1993
Marling, Karal Ann, “Male/Female in New Deal Art,” Art in America, April, 1992, pp. 43, 45, 46
Peterson, Kim, “New Deal Artist Still at Work,” Art in America, May 1992, p. 25
Melosh, Barbara, Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and
Theater, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1991
“Haley Hailed,” Artbreaks, The Oregonian, May 9, 1990
Hunt, Phil, ?The Discipline of Still Life,? The Oregonian, April 2, 1989, pp. C3 Ellen Nichols, NW Originals: Oregon Women and Their Art, In Unison Publications, Inc.,
Portland, OR, 1989
Barry, Debby, "Sally Haley: Point of Reference," NW Gallery Art Magazine, 1989
Johnson, Barry, “The Camera Focuses on Cultural Figures,” The Oregonian, February, 1989
McNichol, Bethanye, ?Culinary Arts and Crafts,? The Oregonian,
December, 1987
Guenther, Bruce, The Fountain Gallery of Art 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Portland, OR, 1986
“Artist of the Year,” The Neighbor, February, 1985, pp. 1, 3
Cowan, Ron, “Painter Finds Art in Simple Life at Home,” The Statesman-Journal
“Slice of Still Life,” The Oregonian, March, 1985
Mandaville, Janet H, ?NW Painter Termed ‘Classical’,? The Neighbor, October, Burress, Charles, ? A Touch of Northwest Class at The Claremont,? The Oregonian, July, 1983
Rocchia, Andy, ?Painting Flowers a Blossoming Art,? The Oregon Journal, June, Kimbrell, Leonard, ?Like Some Emily Dickinson of Painting,? The Oregonian, October 11, 1981,
pp. NW10, NW11
Griffin, Rachael, "Sally Haley: Reality of Things," Rainbow, October, 1979
Fagen, Beth, “A Big Step for the Arts in Oregon, The Oregonian, May, 1977
Rocchia Andy, “Capitol Art Selection Process Continuing,” The Oregonian, April 1977
Campbell, R.M., “A Painter Who Refuses To Be Categorized,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 17,
1976
Griffin,Rachael, Sally Haley: Paintings, Portland Art Museum, exhibition catalogue, 1975
Peahem, L, “Magical Realism at the Fountain,” Portland SCRIBE, June, 1972
Jordan, Barbara, “Worth Noting: Curator Delineates Haley Works for Guests,” The Oregonian, June 3,
1972, p. 2
Benton, William, ?Haley Exhibit Highly Original,? The Oregonian, June 11, 1972, ?Summer Events Reviewed,? The Oregon Journal, August 1968 ?Art Unveiled at Jewish Center,?
The Oregonian, February, 1966
Jones, Catherine, “Portland Art Galleries Prepare Displays Featuring Local, Area Creative Talent,”
The Oregonian, October, 1965
Aaron, Louise, “New Fall Art Season Promises Full Program,” Oregon Journal, October, 1959
Allen, Jane, “Museum Trustee Gives Fashion Ideas,” The Oregonian, 1959
Beckwith, Ethel, “Mural Done, Mrs. Russo Credits Her Good Baby,” The Oregon Journal,
November, 1954


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