Haley and Russo were a fiery, passionate couple, within a dedicated subculture of artists during Portland's mid-20th century.

Like Haley and Russo, those artists, including Carl and Hilda Morris, Louis Bunce and William Givler, came from or often traveled to the East Coast, putting a vivid stamp on the intellectual climate of a seemingly provincial art scene geographically cut off from the art world's major centers.

Her work is also part of many public and private collections, including the Tacoma Art Museum, Washington; The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon; the American Telephone and Telegraph Company of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, California; and Kaiser Foundation and Portland Civic Auditorium in Oregon.

[4] Haley was one of the muralists involved in painting post office murals as part of the Federal Art Project.

Sally Haley died at an assisted living facility in Portland, Oregon, on September 1, 2007, at age 99.