Biography
Haas was born on January 20, 1916 in Santa Cruz, California; BA, UC Berkeley, 1938; MA, University of Chicago, 1939; Ed.D, Stanford University, 1945; postgraduate in art history, UCLA, 1965-68; became faculty member at UCLA in 1949; named director of arts and humanities extension in 1958; published books include A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein (1971) and Muybridge: man in motion (c1976); also wrote a paper on William Chauncey Bartlett; Bartlett was born on December 30, 1818 in Haddam, Connecticut; attended Williams College, and in 1847, Ohio University; admitted to Ohio bar and was law partner of Hiram Strong in Dayton, 1848-55; joined the staff of the Dayton gazette, 1855; became anti-slavery preacher in Indianapolis in 1857; moved to San Francisco in 1860; became itinerant preacher in the California gold mining towns; served as editor of the San Francisco bulletin in 1866, and took over from Bret Harte as the editor of the Overland monthly in 1871; served as a school superintendent and board member of Mills College; author of works on a variety of subjects, including A breeze from the woods (1880); he died on December 7, 1907 in Oakland, California.
From the guide to the Robert Bartlett Haas Collection of Material about William Chauncey Bartlett, 1850-1987, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections.)
