Harriet Shorr (1939-2016) American, Framed Multi-Page Still Life Mixed Media on Paper. This magnificent eight foot long display of five of her works, likely done in colored pencil and crayon during an experimental phase in the late 1970s to early 1980s, shows five different still lifes linked by their placement on the surfaces underneath them, with blue dominating the left side and purple dominating the right. Signed bottom right of the last image on the right. 

Overall Size: 21 1/2 x 93 in. 

Sight Size: 13 1/2 x 85 1/2 in. 

Harriet Shorr was born in 1939 in Brooklyn, New York and studied at Swarthmore College and Yale School of Art and Architecture, becoming an art teacher at Swarthmore after receiving her BFA in 1962. She was a McDowell Fellow and became a professor emerita at Purchase College as well as a significant figure in the New York art scene, with her realist style of direct, “wet-into-wet” oil painting of still lifes without preliminary drawings praised by critics for featuring arrangements of objects with deep metaphorical or mythological significance. Her later complex allegorical scenes and experiments with other artists as well as poetry led to several critically acclaimed books, and by the time of her death in 2016 her work had left a lasting impact on contemporary realism, with pieces in numerous corporate collections as well as in the Chicago Art Institute and the Brooklyn Museum.

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