Painter Tom Haas offers a compelling view of the American west, particularly the southwest. His brush strokes portray light, color, form, and atmosphere as well as the textural process of painting. Tom often works in the open air.
The National Park Academy of the Arts recognized Tom Haas as "being in the top echelon of representational artists working today" with its Award For Excellence in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Home National Bank acquired two paintings by Haas for their offices in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2002. And the year before, MBNA America Bank collected more than 30 paintings by this award-winning artist.
The U.S. Dept. of State’s regional office in Vienna, Austria, introduced Tom’s southwest landscape paintings to a global audience with its 2004 calendar. One of his paintings was also published on the cover of the Geneva Art In Embassies catalog, while the original was on display at The Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in Switzerland. Later that year, Tom was a guest at The White House in Washington, D.C., in celebration of the Art In Embassies program.
Tom Haas studied oil painting with acclaimed North American painters such as Duane Bryers, Len Chmiel, William Reese, Don Putman, Mark Daily, George Strickland, Dan Mieduch, Ralph Oberg, and James Reynolds, at the Scottsdale Artists School where Haas became a popular painting instructor himself for eight years.
Art of the West magazine introduced Tom Haas to its readers in November 1996. In 1997, Haas won "Best of Show" at a Tucson Museum of Art exhibition and received his second Phippen Foundation Award in Prescott, Arizona, for museum quality (first time in 1995). Upon returning to the Phippen Western Art Show in 2004, he won First Place in Drawing. Tom’s work was also in the Phippen Museum's 2005-06 Miniature Masterpieces shows and its 2007 Winner’s Roundup retrospective.
In 1998, Tom’s work was featured in the first issue of International Artists magazine. It also appeared in a book titled Art of the American West. Later that year, he was inducted as an Honorary Artist Life Member of the prestigious Mountain Oyster Club in Tucson, Arizona. In addition to one-man shows at the A.R. Mitchell Museum in Colorado (2000) and the Sun Cities Museum in Arizona (1996), Tom’s paintings have been exhibited at the C.M. Russell Museum in Montana, the Clymer Museum in Washington, and at several Arizona museums including the Pueblo Grande, Sharlot Hall, Phippen, Tucson Museum of Art, and the Scottsdale Center for the Arts.
For 20 years, Haas was represented by various art galleries in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and California. Now, he enjoy exclusive representation at his own studio/gallery, where he particularly enjoys meeting the people who collect his paintings.
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