Sabra field biography for kids
Biography for 2nd graders.
- "Self portrait" by Sabra Field
Tacked to the wall of Sabra Field's South Royalton printmaking studio is a small note that reads, "An artist is her own fault." The quote from John O'Hara (modified from "his" to "her") was given to Field by Vermont sculptor Kate Pond.
The curious excerpt is a small, if sideways, gesture to the self-possession and fortitude that have helped Field, now 82, become not only a successful and multifaceted artist but a Vermont icon.
Sabra field biography for kids
Born in Oklahoma and raised in New York, Field graduated from Middlebury College in 1957 as the institution's first-ever art major. This summer, her alma mater commemorates the milestone with its second retrospective of her work, "Sabra Field, Now and Then: A Retrospective," at the Middlebury College Museum of Art.
The exhibition includes several of the printmaker's "greatest hits," scenes that distill Vermont's storied landscape and bucolic fantasies into visual archetypes. But it also offers a broad s