In her landscapes, Sara Richman Harris (1921-2016) reveals a love of color, shape, form and nature.
An impressionistic watercolor of Stinson Lake, NH, painted in 1935 when Sara was in her early teens, predates the more formal oils of New Hampshire mountains, streams, lakes, and of seascapes she painted in the 1940s.
Yet, as Rakhee Bamaran, professor of Contemporary art at the State University of New York at Albany writes in an informal assessment:
Sara’s landscapes ” demonstrate a mystic strain that veer towards abstraction. Her color-rich lands and lakes are often bathed in a tender, misty light. Some show the moodiness and imagination of fellow New England artist, Albert Pinkham Ryder and a debt to American transcendentalism.”
In the 1950s and 60s, Sara experimented with geometry, abstraction, and the fantastical; in the 1970s she integrates the imaginary and the real. Throughout the artistic trajectory presented here, Sara expresses her unique vision, playfulness, and joie de vivre—and her fascination with the essence of the natural world—and with life.
1930s
1940s
New Hampshire
New York
1950s/1960s
1970s
