Informal Assessment by Rakhee Balaram
“Sara Richman Harris’ portraits show a penetrating psychological insight…Her landscapes, on the other hand, demonstrate a mystic strain that veers towards abstraction…” Rakhee Balaram, Associate Professor of Global Art & Art History, SUNY Albany, February 15, 2023 Read more:
SHR’s Boston roots, Girls Latin School and the Fenway, 1930s
“The world in which Sara Richman Harris matured as a young woman, during the 1930s and 1940s…was a period very different from today…It was a world experiencing great social, economic and political change, but certain avenues of life and experience were only beginning to open to young women. She was born a year after women first exercised voting right through the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution…”Wesley Balla, PhD, Cultural Historian and former curator of the New Hampshire Historical Society Read more:
Fisher family commentary on watercolor Sara painted during Harris Family visit to their rental on Cape Cod in the early 1960s. By Steven Fisher of Prague and Andrew Fisher III, of New Jersey.