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An Artist's Affair
With The Automobile
CARLA JEAN SCHWARTZ
Section Editor
A
rtist Tom Hale
focuses on the
automobile as a work
of art. "I'm trying to use the
car as a canvas,"said Mr.
Hale.
The 1941 Buick, on our
cover, is a photo of a 30 X 40
acrylic painting that epit-
omizes Mr. Hale's
philosophy. He uses the
sheet metal of the auto as a
canvas and creates a pain-
ting keeping the integrity of
the automobile while explor-
ing color and reflection.
Mr. Hale became fas-
cinated with automobiles as
a youth. Since he always en-
joyed sketching cars, it was
natural for him to attend
and graduate from the Art
Center School in Los
Angeles.
He began his artistic ca-
reer as a designer of future
cars working for Chrysler,
General Motors and Ameri-
can Motors. As much as he
loved his job, he became
frustrated as an artist in a
traditional setting and
began to paint. That sense of
freedom became an attrac-
tion and Mr. Hale left his
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secure twenty year career in
1985 to puriue painting on a
full-time basis.
Today Mr. Hale is a mem-
ber of the American Water-
color Society. His painting of
a 1932 Duesenberg was the
winner of America's
prestigious watercolor
award, the Gold Medal of
Honor, in the American
Watercolor Society's 113th
Annual Exhibition in New
York.
His works are displayed in
many corporate and private
collections throughout the
world. When Lee Iacocca
traveled to China in 1988, he
presented Premier Li Peng
with a Tom Hale painting of
1962 Chrysler Imperial.
Mr. Hale constantly
struggles with the accep-
tance of automobile painting
as fine art. "If I were pain-
ting flowers, no one would
question its legitimacy." He
talks about the excitement
in his work. "You can take it
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