Sabra Field

Sabra Johnson Field (born April 7, 1935) is an American printmaker known for her color woodcuts of the state of Vermont. Her work features on a United States postage stamp commemorating the bicentennial of the state. The stamp, which depicts a Vermont landscape scene of a red farmhouse set on rolling green hills with mountains in the background sold over 60 million units.

Early life and education Field was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on April 7, 1935. She was raised in New York. She attended Middlebury College, where she was mentored by artist Arthur K.D. Healy. She then attended Wesleyan University, where she received her Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in 1959. She was mentored at Wesleyan by Russell T. Limbach, who introduced her to printmaking.

Teaching career, move to Vermont, and print work After college, Field taught art at several prep schools in Connecticut. In 1969, she divorced her first husband and moved from Connecticut to Vermont with her two sons. They moved into the Tontine Building, a former 19th-century tavern in East Barnard. The selection led to several commissions, including a 1977 series titled Mountain Suite for Vermont Life magazine.

Art books and mural Field was the subject of the books The Art of Place (2002) and In Sight (2004). She installed a large-scale outdoor mural titled Cosmic Geometry on the east wall of the Wright Memorial Theatre on campus of Middlebury in 2010.

Film, children's book, and exhibition Sabra: The Life & Work of Printmaker Sabra Field, a documentary film exploring Field's life, was released in 2015. It was directed by Bill Phillips, a film professor at Dartmouth College. A retrospective show of Field's work was held at the Middlebury College Museum of Art in 2017. It featured 100 of her work from 1962 to the present.