ARTIST’S STATEMENT:

Experience provides knowledge about many things and little about everything. What is known and not known requires examining to determine what is credible, reasonable or an illusion. If imagination is more important than knowledge, then the former will influence the kind of knowledge and art a culture creates.

By examining a variety of topics through the medium of art provides the opportunity for discovering and sharing with others what is learned. The study, conception and making of art by itself is a learning process. This activity never seems finished, physically or contextually by the artist or viewer of the art. The more art is experienced the less it needs the frame and the more the viewer becomes a participant in the learning process.

The viewer of my artworks will find they encompass life experiences, social, historical, philosophical and political points of view, advances in science and the whimsical nature of things. Other artworks examine existential matters concerned with extinction and the sustainability of our planet and inhabitants. These artworks provide a kind of visual literacy from which the viewer can form opinions and imagine new kinds of knowledge.

Robert Hauser
Artist/Conservator

SELECTED RESUME:

TRAINING

EXHIBITS & COLLECTIONS

DISTINCTIONS

  • American Society of Appraisers
  • Boston Museum School
  • Fine Arts Work Center
  • Haystack School Crafts
  • Historic New England Studies
  • Iowa University Book Center
  • MIT, Technology & Conservation Symposium
  • Nantucket School of Art
  • Truro Art Center
  • Tufts University, MFA
  • Boston Museum School of Fine Arts
  • Boston Public Library
  • Concord Art Association
  • Dublin School Putnam Gallery
  • Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery
  • New Hampshire Institute of Art
  • Off the Square Gallery
  • Powers Fine Art Gallery
  • RISD Museum of Art
  • Thorne Sagendorph Gallery
  • University Connecticut
  • American Institute of Conservation
  • Boston Society Printers
  • Getty Conservation Institute
  • Kress & Mellon Studies
  • Mead Paper Company, Design Internship
  • National Endowment of Arts
  • New England Conservation Association
  • SMFA Traveling Scholarship
  • University of London

VISUAL BIOGRAPHY:

“Life Imitates Art” – 1889, by Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900)

Henry C. Hauser, Grandfather, in his NYC studio
1.
Oceanographic Research Vessel in Woods Hole, MA
2.
Paier School of Art in New Haven, CT
3.
School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
4.
Mead Papers design internship in Atlanta, GA
5.
1971 Busyhaus Logo Papermaking Watermark
6.
1971 New England Arts Festival in Cambridge, MA
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Textile Museum in North Andover, MA
8.
Twin Rocker Mill in Brookston, IN
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1974 Papermaking & Preservation Workshop in Boston, MA
10.
Bookbinding Workshop in Boston, MA
11.
1979 Papermaking & Preservation Workshop in Venezuela
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Wallpaper Binding Design in Boston, MA
13.
Maritime Museum in Germany
14.
Gutenberg Printing Museum in Germany
15.
Aboard Schooner Victory Chimes in Rockland, ME
16.
Curmudgeon Yacht Club In Newport RI
17.
2008 Painting Examination at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, MA
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Conservation of James Audubon prints at the New Bedford Free Public Libarry
19.
Conservation of 18th Century Atlantic Neptune Navigation Charts in RI.
20.
Robert Hauser's Library and Studio in NH
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Thomas Dodd Research Center at Univ of CT
22.
Exhibition at Powers Gallery in Acton, MA
23.		Falmouth Historical Society 2018 Exhibition
24.		Those Crazy Laputians exhibit at The Dublin School, NH
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Outer Space exhibit at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, NH
26.		Einstein & Quantum Theory exhibit at Peterborough Library Art Gallery, NH
27.		Books are Whispering assemblage at Peterborough Library Art Gallery28.Wiliam & Claus Rittenhouse Keepsake
29.		Here Today, Gone Tomorrow exhibit at Harris Center, Hancock, NH
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Visual Text:
1. 1950 Henry C. Hauser (1887-1956) Grandfather, Artist Studio, New York City. 2. 1961 Oceanographic Research Vessel “Chain,” Woods Hole, MA. Lab. Technician & Crew Member. 3. 1962-1964 Paier School of Art, Hamden, New Haven, CT. 4. 1963-1973 School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 5. 1969 Mead Papers, Design Internship, Atlanta, GA. 6. 1971 Busyhaus Logo Papermaking Watermark. 7. 1971 New England Arts Festival, Cambridge, MA. 8. 1971 MFA Exhibit, Textile Museum, North Andover, MA. 9. 1973 Hand Papermaking, Twin Rocker Mill, Brookston, IN. 10. 1974 Papermaking & Preservation Workshop, (far left: S. Ellenport), Harcourt Bindery, Boston, MA. 11. 1978 B. Middleton (right) Bookbinding Workshop, Harcourt Bindery, Boston, MA. 12. 1979 Papermaking & Preservation Workshop, Caracas, Venezuela. 13. 1979 BusyHaus Wallpaper Binding Design (right: M. McCurdy), North Andover, MA 14. 1990-1992 Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, Germany & Kress Figurehead Studies. 15. 1992 Gutenberg Printing Museum, Mainz, Germany 16. 1998 Aboard, Schooner Victory Chimes, Rockland, ME. 17. 2000 Curmudgeon Yacht Club, (right: A. Booth), Newport, RI. 18. 2008 Painting Examination, Conservation Laboratory, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA. 19. 2010-2018 Conservation of James Audubon Prints, New Bedford Free Public Library. 20. 2013-2015 Conservation of 18th Century Atlantic Neptune Navigation Charts, John Carter Brown Library, RI. 21. 2016 Artist’s Library and Studio, NH. 22. 2016 Thomas Dodd Research Center, Busyhaus Paper on Paper Archive, University of Connecticut. 23. 2018 The exhibition “A Time & Place,” Powers Gallery, Acton, MA. 24. Falmouth Historical Society 2018 Exhibition: “The Hauser Legacy: Henry, Albert & Robert”. Prepared from the Hauser Family Archives. Robert on board the Replica Bark Rigged HMS Endeavor, New Bedford Harbor, 1998. 25. Assemblage Exhibition: “Outer Space Where Science Meets Art”. Assemblage: “Those Math Crazy Laputians.” Dublin School Putnam Gallery and Perkins Observatory, Dublin, N.H., 2019. Acquired by the Dublin School. 26. Assemblage Exhibition: “Outer Space”. Assemblage: “Dangerous Exoplanets.” McAuliffe-Shepard (Space & Science) Discovery Center, Concord, N.H., 2021-2022. Acquired by the Discovery Center. 27. Assemblage Exhibition: “Einstein & Quantum Theory,” with lecture “Tour of the Universe”. Peterborough Library Art Gallery, N.H., 2024. 28. The assemblage “In the Library the Books are Whispering.” Poem by Charles Simic. Acquired by the Peterborough Library, 2021. 29. Busyhaus Press: “William & Claus Rittenhouse Keepsake” about the 1690 firsthand papermakers in the British Colonies of North America. Letterpress printed, facsimile watermarks, wood engraving, etc. Acquired and distributed by Hand Papermakers Inc., 1922-1924. 30. Exhibition & Lecture: “Art of the Birds“, Harris Center for Conservation Studies. Four Cabinets of Curiosities exhibited that included the assemblage, “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow,” about the cultural relationship between birds and humans. All four acquired by the Harris Center, including The Vanishing Bees, Hancock, N.H. 2025.

Photo Credits:
4. Tufts University, Tisch Library, Medford, MA. 23. Art New England, “Art Seen,” May/June 2018.