Somerville Manning Gallery artist Sarah McRae Morton has been added to the permanent collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.
more about Sarah McRae Morton:
Sarah McRae Morton grew up in rural Lancaster County Pennsylvania, where she still keeps a hayloft studio above the horse stalls in her family’s barn. Sarah attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and has trained under artists Myron Barnstone in Coplay, Pennsylvania and Odd Nerdrum in Norway. She received fellowships to pursue art historical research in Europe and received a Matisse Foundation fellowship for her work on the local history of West Virginia. She also studied with the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property in partnership with the Vatican Museum Laboratory in Rome, Italy. McRae Morton has been an Artist in Residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME; the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Monson Arts Residency, Monson, ME; and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA. Her work is shown across the United States and in Germany.
Morton’s paintings are invented portraits of her ancestors and historical figures – people from her own life, from books and paintings, and from her travels and stories learned. The events and people illustrated are not bound by time or fact but are imbued with ghosts and artifacts from cross sections of history. Sarah’s work is wildly romantic, with an earthy palate and energetic movement around the canvas that quiets on key moments – detailed renderings of the face of a bear, the lips of a lover, the fox stole around a poet’s neck. The paintings seem to flicker to life with her spirited brush strokes.
“The past is not dead, it is not even past” – William Faulkner
Click HERE for a full list of available works by Sarah McRae Morton at Somerville Manning Gallery.
