Mandolin
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Sally Haley
(1908- )
Education:
Yale (1931)
Private art instruction in Munich
Biography:
In the WPA she completed a post office mural, her largest work at 12 feet.
Haley preferred domestic subjects and interior spaces with hints of the indoor
or outdoor space that lay beyond. She arrived in Portland in 1947 with her
husband, Michele Russo. Paintings from this period continued to show her
interest in surrealistic space and her experimentation with placement of
objects in a manipulated environment. Starting in the mid 1950s, the objects
themselves became the subject. In the early 1960s, she ceased using oil paint,
using instead acrylic and egg tempera.
Media:
Tempera, acrylic
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