Hardy, Tom

1921-2016

American; Pacific Northwest

UO Undergraduate Student (BS, 1942); UO Graduate Student (MFA, 1952); sculptor, artist; ; UO Faculty - date? 1950's?

“Born in Redmond, Oregon, Tom Hardy lived part of his boyhood on a sheep ranch in central Oregon before attending Oregon State University in Corvallis for two years and finishing his undergraduate education at the University of Oregon in Eugene (B .S., 1942). The year of his graduation the Oregon Ceramic Studio in Portland (which has just finished showing the same exhibition which we are now featuring in this catalogue) held the first Tom Hardy one-man show ever offered. After three years in the army Hardy returned to the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon to continue his training in sculpture (M.F.A., 1952). Subsequently active as teacher as well as sculptor, he has been employed by the Oregon General Extension Division, 1953-56, the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and the University of California at Berkeley, 1956-58, Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University in New Orleans, 1958-59, and Reed College in Portland, 1959-61. Tom Hardy is well known for his constructivist work in metal sculpture, which has been exhibited individually at many museums around the world and in one-man shows twice already in our own museum (February 5-March 23, 1958, and November 3-22, 1959), many times at the Kraushaar Galleries in New York, and at least once each at the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Oakland Art Museum, the University of California at both Berkeley and Los Angeles, Stanford University Art Museum, the Ogunquit (Me.) Museum of Art, and numerous other institutions.” --“Twenty Northwest Architects,” UOMA Exhibition Catalog, 1962

Two Painters and a Sculptor: Jorge Elliott, Tom Hardy, David McCosh subject

Twenty Northwest Architects and Associated Designers subject

A Bank as Art Patron (The United States National Bank of Portland Collection: "We Love to Collect") subject

Sculptures by Tom Hardy; Textiles by Mrs. Kenneth (Jane) Richardson: Oregon Centennial Festival 1959 subject

Thirty Northwest Craftsmen subject

Laramie '75-'76: Works by Tom Hardy subject

Bicentennial Exhibition of Oregon Artists participating artist

Paintings by David J. McCosh related

Tom Hardy: Recent Sculptures subject

Artists By Artists: Portraits and Self-Portraits

Tom Hardy: Sculptures Subject

Jorge Elliott-Garcia: Oil Paintings related

A Centennial Gift subject/collector

Haseltine Collection: Graphics subject