Elnora "Nora" Hauser (American, 1922-2012) tonal watercolor portrait of a young girl in a collared shirt sitting on a high backed throne chair. Signed lower right. Artwork in frame measures 32" x 27". Artwork in very good condition. Substantial, gilded antique wood frame is in perfectly-imperfect antique condition with a few chips. If you would like to pick up in Newtown Square, PA please email hello@sugartownart.com before purchase for a local pickup discount code!
Elnora Elizabeth Hauser's art studies began with John Soble at East Stroudsburg State University. Following graduation from East Stroudsburg University in 1943, she attended Columbia University, where she studied with Dong Kingman. Her studies in New York continued with Gabor Peterdi and Max Beckman at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and with Henry Varnum Poor at the Skowhegan School of Painting.
Nora received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Nora's paintings and graphics appear in many important collections in the United States, Mexico and Norway. She has exhibited extensively in the Pocono region and throughout eastern Pennsylvania, as well as the Hudson Guild, Audubon Artists Annual, the Brooklyn Museum, The Laurel, ACA and Rochester Contemporary Art galleries, The National Academy Galleries, The Allentown Museum of Art, ESU, University of Missouri, Everhart Museum, Institute of History and Art and El Patio Gallery in Mexico City.
Nora was featured in a Hoverwalking Y Production documentary, directed by Erin Harper, titled "Elnora Hauser: From Her Heart, To Her Mind, To Her Hand, Eighty-Five Years of Art," which tells the remarkable journey of the life and artwork of this extraordinary individual.
