Elnora "Nora" Hauser Mixed Media "After Midnight" Woman's Portrait in Black Shadow Box

Elnora "Nora" Hauser (American, 1922-2012) mixed media abstract portrait of a woman and a clock merged. The piece is both titled After Midnight and It's Later Than You Think / The Time Tree. Carved wood pieces form the shape of her face, which is marked by the hours 12 and 3. Actual scallop shells demonstrating both one eye open, and another closed. A wonderful, thoughtful piece. Framed in a black wood shadow box. Artwork in frame measures 29.5" x 23.5". Artwork and frame are in very good condition. Light scratches to the acrylic. 

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.