Tom Haas

Painter Tom Haas offers a compelling view of the American landscape, particularly the southwest. Sometimes other subjects appear in his work such as small towns or early pueblo life to ranches and animals. His brush strokes portray light, form, color and atmosphere in addition to allowing you to see the process of painting. Tom often works en plein air, a French term for in the open air.

Tom Haas studied oil painting with many acclaimed North American painters, such as Duane Bryers, Len Chmiel, William Reese, Mark Daily, George Strickland, Dan Mieduch and James Reynolds, at the Scottsdale Artists School where Haas became a popular painting instructor himself.

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. Department of State’s regional office in Vienna, Austria, introduced one of Tom’s southwest landscape paintings to a global audience with its 2004 calendar.

Tom’s work has been featured in International Artists, Art of the West and Southwest Art. Tom is an Honorary Artist Life Member of the prestigious Mountain Oyster Club in Tucson, Arizona. In recent years, Haas's oil paintings have been exhibited at several museums including Arizona's Pueblo Grande, Sharlot Hall, Phippen and the Tucson Museum of Art.

Early exposure to paintings by N.C. Wyeth, through books and feed and grain calendars, ignited Haas’s drive and confidence to learn about art and express himself visually. Versatile and prolific, Tom is most inspired by time spent outdoors capturing nature’s light, color and form.
 

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