Art
Looking West from Big Meadows by Nora Harrington
- Item Number
- 106
- Estimated Value
- 1500 USD
- Opening Bid
- 250 USD
Item Description
20” x 26” Oil on canvas, framed. Created in 2007.
Nora Harrington was born in London, England and grew up in Riverdale, Maryland. At age sixteen she enrolled in an intensive arts high school and then moved to New York City to accept a full scholarship to The Cooper Union School of Art. While in New York she taught painting and drawing to artistically gifted inner-city youth and interned at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
In 1995 she spent a semester of independent study in London under acclaimed art historian Dore Ashton. While living in Rye, England she had her first experience painting outdoors in a rural setting and received several commissions to paint plein air landscapes of English properties. After leaving Cooper Union in 1997 Harrison moved to Washington, D.C. but soon returned to the countryside to live and paint, developing a new visual vocabulary which could combine her love of modern painting with her love for these new surroundings.
“I regard the artistic process itself as another of nature’s mysteries. The fact that certain colors, compositions, and patterns of brushstroke are pleasing to us must surely be rooted in some unknown natural equation. Like the divine mathematics that underlies all natural things, these are equations which I do not hope to understand but only to acknowledge”.
In 2001 she began showing and selling plein air landscape paintings through professional galleries and her paintings are now in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and in Germany, England, Spain, and Italy.
Nora Harrington lives on an organic farm in Washington, Virginia and is represented by R.H. Ballard Fine Art.
Art donated by Nora Harrington & R.H. Ballard Fine Art.
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