Name/Title
PrintEntry/Object ID
2021.42.3Description
Print on paper. Stacked-perspective landscape with dark-blue, lined lake in foreground with white beach. Textured grey and blue hills in the middle-ground with dark blue mountain in the background. Sky is grey, white, and blue.Context
In 1982 Sabra Field was commissioned by IBM to produce four prints in celebration of 25 years at the Vermont plant. A limited run of 60 prints of each work was distributed to management and VIPs. A poster, including all four prints, IBMs logo with the word "Burlington" and a stylized 25 was produced in larger quantities for employees. The four prints depicted Vermont in four seasons. See objects 2021.42.1-5.
Sabra Field was born in Oklahoma, grew up in New York, and attended Middlebury College, graduating in 1957. Influenced by her art teachers Joseph Ablow and Arthur K. D. Healy, she resolved to become an artist. After further study at Wesleyan College, where she made her first woodcut prints, she taught art at various prep schools in Connecticut. Although married and the mother of two young sons, she was committed to pursuing her career as an artist. In 1965 she acquired a derelict 19th-century tavern “waiting to fall down” in the White River Valley, which she eventually restored and converted to a permanent home and studio.
Her work, much of it pastoral, became strongly associated with Vermont and the Vermont Landscape. She was commissioned to design the commemorative stamp for Vermont's bicentennial in 1991. The stamp sold over 60 million units and was one of the postal services best selling stamps of all time. She also designed imagery for calendars, credit cards, wine bottle labels, UNICEF cards, and hot air balloons. IBM, the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, Billings Farm in Woodstock, Vermont Public Television, Vermont Life magazine, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Middlebury College.
-Adapted from Middlebury College press releaseAcquisition
Accession
2021.42Source or Donor
Caswell, Joanna C.Acquisition Method
GiftMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Field, Sabra Johnson (b. 1935)Role
Print MakerDate made
1982Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
PrintNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsDimensions
Height
19-1/4 inWidth
17 in