https://www.harrietshorr.com/pastels daily 0.75 2025-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548702046871-QPLDDJEEO1RFT915NXSV/211-Handkercheif-Harmonica_1985_22x30_PastelonPaper.jpg Pastels - Handkerchief Harmonica pastel on paper 22 x 30” 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548702046871-QPLDDJEEO1RFT915NXSV/211-Handkercheif-Harmonica_1985_22x30_PastelonPaper.jpg Pastels - Handkerchief Harmonica pastel on paper 22 x 30” 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703810151206-8R26ZR0UYCR2CQH85IVP/212_Icecream-Iris.jpg Pastels - Ice Cream / Iris pastel 22” x 30” 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703985484813-2B1QWRRQ9IO3SCK85D5D/292_Snaps.jpg Pastels - Snaps pastel 30” x 37” 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703985774116-YZ3MHUM28AO8VVP0FHT8/image-asset.jpeg Pastels - Mirror Image pastel 39.25” x 53.3” 1984 private collection https://www.harrietshorr.com/humannature daily 0.75 2026-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1764734629672-ULL570M42T1I5SV36LAS/image-asset.jpeg Watercolors - Magnolia #1 watercolor 40.5 × 26.25” 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1764734629672-ULL570M42T1I5SV36LAS/image-asset.jpeg Watercolors - Magnolia #1 watercolor 40.5 × 26.25” 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1759012576046-XSW7OPQ3IXTA0KX558I8/image-asset.jpeg Watercolors - Two Butterflies watercolor 40.5” x 29.5” 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548785057277-L3OH9A3E5YST0FT96KWS/birds+birds+2008+wc+35_+x+38.5.jpg Watercolors - Birds, Birds watercolor 35 x 38” 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548786287426-L36F08Z84VU8IUB687AF/ligularia+othello+2008+wc+37_+x+36_.jpg Watercolors - Ligularia / Othello watercolor 37 x 36" 2008 private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1759013373185-RJYFKBD32KTY0MCGNDRZ/image-asset.jpeg Watercolors - study for "la tasse rose c'est moi" watercolor 24.5” x 52” 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548695295238-2PQXD4IV15CHY9CK16AW/937_Staked-Peonies_1999_36x22.25in_Watercolor.jpg Watercolors - Staked Peonies watercolor 36 x 22” 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548700160828-UJ1RUIGFDG7GHQZKHQZD/959_Reflection-of-Gladioli_1999_29.75x45in_Watercolor.jpg Watercolors - Reflection of Gladioli watercolor 29¾ x 45” 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1754668852659-A1BFVFG628HSXE4QMNFB/image-asset.jpeg Watercolors - Birch and Apple watercolor 16 × 16” 1997 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548696993876-8TVQM7CVSRON80O6APNA/159_Lyre1_1995_10x14in_Watercolor.jpg Watercolors - Lyre I watercolor 10 x 14” 1995 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1769975801416-014OXLIRGZXY9BDPU9MJ/image-asset.jpeg Watercolors - Rose with Pattern monotype with watercolor 18 × 24” 1992 collection of Vermont Studio School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703894287490-1ZWZS9TVQ0VIZXLY7MXR/image-asset.jpeg Watercolors - Ophelia II watercolor 28” x 40” 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1761232402437-2K6D9VMM2Z2OVDNRLJZJ/image-asset.jpeg Watercolors - Quince and Fence watercolor 41 “× 26” 1991 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703810255623-L4DLTBMB06UORXXJCLWM/203_Green-Duet_40x60in_wc_1984.JPG Watercolors - Green Duet watercolor 40” x 60” 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1764735347287-XMFBWCFNOSY3GWKZHXWH/image-asset.jpeg Watercolors - White Flowers and Grasses watercolor 18 × 24” 1975 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1769976285105-DW7DIVWUW8IQBDJDT8ZF/582_Pink-House-With-Palms.jpg Watercolors https://www.harrietshorr.com/monotypes daily 0.75 2026-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551245524325-5MPOI0XCC78PFH85HKO8/1104_Fox-in-the-Meadow_30x22in_mt_2005.JPG Monotypes Fox in the Meadow monotype 30 x 22” 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551245524325-5MPOI0XCC78PFH85HKO8/1104_Fox-in-the-Meadow_30x22in_mt_2005.JPG Monotypes Fox in the Meadow monotype 30 x 22” 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1769967016688-HMA0M32G9MD1722XX9XU/1048_Tulip-Circle_2003.png Monotypes - Tulip Circle monotype 22 × 30” 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551245448496-FBBFC6T4O18EM86KGJYY/1022_Walk-in-the-Window_22x30in_mt_2002.JPG Monotypes Walk in the Window monotype 22 x 30” 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1764734223068-CILXVTT71KKSXL49S2NJ/image-asset.jpeg Monotypes - Nancy's Hollyhocks monotype 34 × 27” 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792874821741-S95X99BN3H0GU22EP801/image-asset.jpeg Monotypes - Clouds Over the Garden monotype 27.5 × 35.5” 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1769965725677-LCXSIMXB363AIQ38AZTL/image-asset.jpeg Monotypes - Winter Blues monotype 22 × 36” 1995 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1764733650330-8TBD9E00O8F5AP11B4D8/image-asset.jpeg Monotypes - Muse, Spring monotype 30 × 22” 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1752027027899-5KUWZH3H571Z9GS3UKG8/153_Pattern1.jpg Monotypes - Pattern monotype 41 × 29” 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1764733956400-XW36ARAJKRAO2RSNVKSB/image-asset.jpeg Monotypes - Birdcage monotype 40 × 35.75” 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792872917318-MG5TCX2MQO5KNHWGXZ11/image-asset.jpeg Monotypes - Empty Cage #1 monotype 40 × 36” 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548697202305-UB7EVYDL82M2CEIMFV3P/114_Iris-Solo_1991_61.5x39in_Monotype.jpg Monotypes - Iris Solo monotype 61½ x 39” 1991 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1761233159609-3Y78QMX3DIX3YPHAO72L/image-asset.jpeg Monotypes - Green Mask #1 monotype 30” x 38” 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703984855227-STR4TH6XV9JY9AM5N1ED/320_Nectarines.jpg Monotypes - Nectarines monotype 22” x 30” 1987 private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1754669440358-ARPIXTCQ7WPEOEY3Z6L1/image-asset.jpeg Monotypes - Narcissus on Mercer Street #1 monotype 22 × 30” 1987 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1759011663299-XAKS5NUFLSO5LT7S8GWS/image-asset.jpeg Monotypes - Ironing in August monotype 44” x 30” 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1759010607026-5VPVDKJSY2VTX9XA0SPZ/image-asset.jpeg Monotypes - Assorted Ties monotype 30” × 40” 1985 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/5c4f3e1a7ba7fc1bbd64fa4c/6add1422bb40327d628491ad/1792873824009/ Monotypes - Cherries, Cherries monotype 30 × 40” 1988 “Went uptown to see the American Still Life show—occasional strange ideas, like fruit up close on a patch of grass or raspberries in a gauntlet, also on the grass—painters in the main conceiving their task as the loving, even reticently loving, representation of fruit, flowers, and various glass, pottery, and silver containers… I think it can be argued that with the exception of the Spanish still life painters of the Golden Age and Chardin, it wasn’t until Cezanne that still life painting opened up into something more than the celebration of the quotidian and its materiality… Although lurking within the still life genre have always been the stirrings of abstraction. The implicitness, or the possibilities of abstraction in still life, lies the following ambivalence: Cherries are cherries and they are also round and red. If the painter loves them for their cherry-ness, you get one kind of still life painting. If the painter loves them for their roundess and redness, you get another kind of still life painting.” Harriet Shorr, journal entry, 1984 https://www.harrietshorr.com/paintings daily 1.0 2026-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1752119038367-WM5CNB975JZWV2KH2XP3/image-asset.jpg Paintings - Disco Ball with Peonies oil on canvas 60 × 90” 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1752119038367-WM5CNB975JZWV2KH2XP3/image-asset.jpg Paintings - Disco Ball with Peonies oil on canvas 60 × 90” 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551415478668-OX0B6XS319OADK159FTT/ChristmasLights%26MirrorBall2011%2C60x49.5%2522.jpg Paintings Christmas Lights and Mirror Ball oil on canvas 60 x 49” 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551416861790-B9CAJMW6NPR0SP6GENNB/Sue%27s+Shirt%2C+2011%2C+o%3Ac%2C+40x60%2522.jpg Paintings Sue's Shirt oil on canvas 40 x 60” 2011 collection of Susan Houle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551414972871-UQLTWSP5OJETDQZOFOLT/The+Pink+Quilt%2C+2010%2C+o%3Ac%2C+54x60%2522++.jpg Paintings - The Pink Quilt oil on canvas 54 x 60” 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551245221519-JS5KTEPTFURIB906MDGO/1217_TheDeerAndTheHound_50x80in_oc_2009.jpg Paintings The Stag and the Hound oil on canvas 50 x 80” 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551415626501-ZPDQAF85CC654CD9QNGY/After+Morandi%2C+2009%2C+o%3Ac%2C+30x32%2522.jpg Paintings After Morandi oil on canvas 30 x 32” 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1759012755684-2WWKFKJRWOUIM0SB9W1H/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Turtle Heads at the Pond oil on cavnas 21” x 18” 2008 private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548785684418-GEDE1AR3XXWS409HC8Z3/_chickadee+2008+oc+72x46.jpg Paintings - Birdsong oil on canvas 72 x 46” 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548786749365-0TTL7YSXPQ3KUX3SVZDP/Objects+of+Use+to+Me+2008+oc+70x135.jpg Paintings - Objects of Use to Me oil on canvas 70 x 135” 2008 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551415279599-4WKVG1SN30WPDVKUR03C/After+Ensor%2C+2007%2C+o%3Ac%2C40x60%2522.jpg Paintings - After Ensor oil on canvas 40 x 60” 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551415157738-3PH4ZS2NJVLOSHC3YCAR/Sailing+Away%2C+2007%2C+o%3Ac%2C+60x50%2522.jpg Paintings Sailing Away oil on canvas 60 x 50” 2007 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551415335283-DWMRKHGC8CFYL8OJ9G67/La+Tasse+Rose+c%27est+moi%2C+2007%2C+o%3Ac%2C+40x64%2522.jpg Paintings - La Tasse Rose C'est Moi oil on canvas 40 x 60” 2007 collection of Ruth Baguskas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1752028327418-556D587L6X21FMIUUMT9/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Persephone Returns oil on canvas 60 × 90” 2006 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1752119641480-SGTYBJA7529YXLF1BRWR/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - After Cythera/The Lutinist oil on canvas 36 × 36” 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1752119406157-YZQ4EIL2S8GIWLD98HOA/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Pony oil on canvas 36 × 36” 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1752027975890-EGUJN2X6Y7BB31PMEFOF/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Brocade oil on canvas 60 × 50” 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1549916291076-NSIT259AJ9S0SCM7I3M7/1060_Opera_42x38in_oc_2003.JPG Paintings - Opera oil on canvas 42 x 38” 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1769975465765-62VOHZSFW0Z3CXDUZOU4/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Dream of the Window / Country oil on canvas 50 × 80” 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551244471438-ZQ6VXNTQPNC4W5GU31WF/1009_Returning_40x60in_oc_2001.jpg Paintings Returning oil on canvas 40 x 60” 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551415710139-U2JUK6WOQ1Y02032HXLN/Black+Hollyhocks%2C+2001%2Co%3Ac%2C+60x50%2522.jpg Paintings Black Hollyhocks oil on canvas 60 x 50” 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548785824701-Q5YGM05JT5ST6RH4IZ85/Artifice%2C2000%2C70x60_.jpg Paintings - Artifice oil on canvas 70 x 60" 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548700489382-4BVEYUQF3W890XKYP6XN/928_Cloud-Fantasy_1999_60x40in_Oiloncanvas.jpg Paintings - Cloud Fantasy oil on canvas 60 x 40” 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1593968928294-8FVD992BFMRAWSGC814Y/939_Wind-from-the-West_1999_60x50in_OilonCanvas.jpg Paintings - Wind from the West oil on canvas 60 x 50” 1999 Collection of Patrick & Maureen Dore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703893156770-XROU3JGOR1EF252RMAR8/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Northeast Eden oil on canvas 70” x 50” 1997 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703808922397-RMF1Y8KWKGSUDW47BZN9/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Snow Babies oil on canvas 40” x 60” 1996 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1774928799210-UPKKFCKZ0EWFG2N1QOHB/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Crossing Over (Adieu Adele) oil on canvas 50 × 80” 1995 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551414898480-KAH30WTAB5R4RF0PV2ZR/Sycamore+Journey%2C+1995++++++++++++++o%3Ac%2C+60%2522x60%2522.jpg Paintings - Sycamore Journey oil on canvas 60 x 60” 1995 Originality, a poem by Harriet Shorr. Writers scribbling through years, Small black lines and curlicues Became lovers, robbers, Mothers and soldiers, The trees and rivers they wandered among, Their dresses and ties, Written streets, avenues, parks, Greed, joy, anguish. Words, more words than stars. Write about place Never described, Write about encampments, Under those trees, Along those rivers. Write about longing there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1754668271080-VR6H7E7Y7DCLY9OTDW4Y/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Pond oil on canvas 60 × 50” 1994 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548699787908-V8NH4YKSSIJFWRQ5OJIS/129_Stormy-Weather_1993_38x56in_OilonCanvas.jpg Paintings - Stormy Weather oil on canvas 38 x 25” 1993 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548699952679-M9BKIRXZK36G51SBDN79/136_GreenPeas_1993_40x50in_OilonCanvas.jpg Paintings - Green Peas oil on canvas 40 x 50” 1993 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548694884647-BQ2WGY41VO4IZ8ICDNK5/146_Quince-and-Cup_1991_30x40in_OilonCanvas_.jpg Paintings - Quince and Cup oil on canvas 30 x 40” 1991 Collection of Swarthmore College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551242973013-ZT1JBB9OC2D9EQH9CWOI/03_Contemplating-Curly-Willow_70x135in_oc_1991_.jpg Paintings - Contemplating Curly Willow oil on canas 70 x 135” 1991 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1754668472191-NVL5H3YJQXDAW5QG4T6F/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Coppelia oil on canvas 66 × 56 1991 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548784816827-0QINF0IPKB801Q020I4H/birds+birds+2008+wc+35_+x+38.5.jpg Paintings - Birds, Birds Birds, Birds, 2008 watercolor, 35 x 38” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792261347931-ZG2EBBGUJ1BEAE2Z5JRO/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Chrysanthemum Off Center oil on canvas 66 × 46” 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1774928513851-4OF7K59M31TAT6UVAKOB/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Green Plate / Black Vase oil on canvas 40 × 60” 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1754667805773-SPTNF63MG92L6ZX8WNBT/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - August Light oil on canvas 60 × 90" 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792263567657-ET2B95YYIE25WDPIIB5G/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - The Cat in the Hat oil on canvas 60 × 40” 1989 “A bright cloth throws color up into the darker surfaces of reflecting objects, creating hues that are subtle mixtures of the color of the object and the color of the cloth.” Harriet Shorr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792635724081-19WL4EDARH1D9PDB52PJ/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Fatin's Quinces oil on canvas 80 × 70” 1988 “In Fantin Quince’s the colors on the inside of the bowl changed as the sun moved across the sky. I incorporated several different moments because I didn’t want to give up one color for another.” Harriet Shorr, The Artist’s Eye: A Perceptual Way of Painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792874316500-OB85JGOTVZBLWEM17E2S/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Set Piece oil on canvas 70 × 135” 1988 “Objects in this space, enlarged and set in a field of strongly saturated color, are free to become actors, icons, metaphors.” Harriet Shorr, The Artist’s Eye: A Perceptual Way of Painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792634966127-1M0AGFK47Q03E15W2S60/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Venice on Mercer Street oil on canvas 70 × 40” 1987-88 “Looking out the window, past a vase of autumn leaves, I saw the window of the building across the street reflecting the brilliant greens of a building next door to me. I composed the painting so that there was no architectural reference to the inside window. I painted a visual field that had no obvious clues to where things were. For me, the resulting image configures into the impression I saw, yet the ambiguities of distance are part of it.” Harriet Shorr, The Artist’s Eye: A Perceptual Way of Painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703985101592-EZIRLQTZCMBRFYXUXRKX/315_DuckOutofWater.jpg Paintings - Duck Out of Water oil on canvas 50” x 40” 1987 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1774928675155-WSK3107JYXG07RCGVV31/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Broken Figurine oil on canvas 60 × 90” 1986 “For many years I had wanted to make a painting inspired by a description of Odette’s bedroom in Proust’s Swann in Love. Proust had described a lattice in the setting, so I bought some lattice and painted it gold. At the same time I wanted to divide the painting into a yin and yang side. This grew out of a private joke. Sometimes a potential collector would say that a painting was too feminine; another would say that it was too strong. The lattice with the kimono was the yin, or feminine, side of the painting; the little figurine and hat was the yang, or masculine, side. The orchids, occupying the middle, were a sensuous form, both yin and yang. As I arranged the still life, the head of the figurine—a Tang dynasty groom—fell off. I liked the space of the arrangement better with the head on the table, and although I knew it would invite further interpretation, I left it that way. The light streaming in on the black velvet increased the drama and suggested the tone of a mystery. The private meanings are not necessary to respond to the drama of black, pink, celadon green, white, gold, and purple that establish the presence of the painting.” Harriet Shorr, The Artist’s Eye: A Perceptual Way of Painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1774928058819-E2FCOSWQMWUDWZEYDC5W/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - The Carp Sings the Blues oil on canvas 55 × 85” 1986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792261139276-S30OCM0W88TD14Z9JTEM/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Swan Lake oil on canvas 60 × 90” 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703809592148-BHUKN23FY6SD51E1TSSH/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Parasol on Astroturf oil on canvas 60” x 90” 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703894184806-1CYHDOZ1QRHUXCFBIZE0/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Nectarines oil on canvas 60” x 60” 1983 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792262151705-WOIVUCMHIX875WIOWSL9/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Counterpoint oil on canvas 60 × 90” 1982 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792262910876-E9GGVO6ZNM1H651W57QP/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Cool June oil on canvas 60 × 90” 1982 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551414396359-LWX25SC7FQW37TAWYHO2/89-Red-Fantasy_60x90in_oc_1982.jpg Paintings - Red Fantasy oil on canvas 60 x 90” 1982 “I started a large painting with the fan and some artificial flowers, which I chose to enliven the space. My friend Jim Long brought home a balloon from a child’s birthday party, and I placed that in the painting. The associations of the fan and the balloon became a.. metaphor for movement…, and one that had come about serendipitously. Of course, if I hadn’t been thinking about movement, I wouldn’t have considered putting the balloon in the painting at all. The color field of the painting becomes a space in which the associations between a few objects, drawn from different times and places, can exist. The color, in this case red, is the medium in which they are coexisting, even when their juxtaposition is unlikely.” Harriet Shorr, The Artist’s Eye: A Perceptual Way of Painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792264747399-DLEHIF7H1NGWHDS4SK43/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Christmas Lights oil on canvas 60 × 90” 1982 “Certain subject matter posed a complicated technical challenge. If I was not satisfied with the way it had been represented, I painted it again. Such a subject was a string of Christmas lights. The first time I painted them I set them on a pale-colored ground. The lights were on, but the daylight was falling on the tablecloth, and although I painted the colors and values as faithfully as I could, I was not satisfied with the results. A year later I painted the same lights, this time in the late afternoon and on a dark purple ground. The result was much more satisfying and convincing.” Harriet Shorr, The Artist’s Eye: A Perceptual Way of Painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1549915888261-9PUD7TMZSHPSJHPQKFUI/77_Summertime-Swing_60x90in_oc_1981.jpg Paintings - Summertime Swing oil on canvas 60 x 90” 1981 “Although through the years I had painted the same objects and the same cloths in different combinations, it had never seemed to me to be repetitive. It was characteristic of abstract painters to use the same elements of design over and over, exploring changes of color, and the resulting changes of space. It appeared that the variety in the work of any abstract artist had more to do with what I have called painting than it did with the image. This simplicity of form was never questioned in abstraction, and I accepted simplicity of form in paintingin still life.” Harriet Shorr, The Artist’s Eye: A Perceptual Way of Painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551244303538-O8ADM5XCSEE7Z0W7O4LT/64_Big-Blue_60x90in_oc_1978.jpg Paintings - Big Blue oil on canvas 60 x 90” 1978 Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Al Roth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551244234265-FZVKWY0Y1BKRHSZ3B3Q5/62_Big-Red_60x90in_oc_1978.jpg Paintings - Big Red oil on canvas 60 x 90” 1978 Collection of Brooke & Malcolm Travelstead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792639839628-F2A0KO7TSP0ZE9ZB55SG/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Freesias for Anne oil on canvas 60” x 64” 1977 Collection of Alexa, Manya, and Justine Bradley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792640003845-ELH25QH15USWKR7QAVYR/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Raspberries oil on canvas 60 × 50” 1977 Private collection “The paintings continued to be about two forms and the character of the space between them. The glass of milk reappeared in a summer painting, juxtaposed with a plate of raspberries. The subtleties of the black on black and white on white of the ground were challenging.” Harriet Shorr, The Artist’s Eye: A Perceptual Way of Painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1792639567937-1MWRMIPAFPV50PCK6WBJ/348_Magnolia_60x50in_oc_1976.jpg Paintings - Magnolia oil on canvas 60” x 50” 1976 collection of Jan Woodruff “Magnolia was exhibited in a large comprehensive show of representational painting, and I felt even more strongly—when I saw it in another context—that the direction I had started in was the right one.” Harriet Shorr, The Artist’s Eye: A Perceptual Way of Painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1762407747186-8XOSZAGHLMXE9QR9TFKV/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - May Window oil on canvas 1972 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703893967282-98F6OWA34C3TQ371M7SF/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Self Portrait with Photographs oil on canvas 50” x 50” 1970 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703893805151-A40S91GPDY9SZSHRFWEK/image-asset.jpeg Paintings - Still Life with Eggs oil on canvas 30” x 40” 1967-68 collection of Emily McCully https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1551416807636-KEG2N92J1RCNCS5X0IE3/Owl%2C+2013-2014%2C+o%3Ac%2C+30x30%2C+P1301.jpg Paintings one of the last paintings Shorr made NFS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1790017733459-6S2LD8LQ0O6TC7MV7WQS/358_Peonies.jpg Paintings https://www.harrietshorr.com/works-on-paper daily 0.75 2025-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548787113834-RZZVN2US1P8DKGPRLOET/plums+with+clouds+2008+40_+x30_.jpg Other Works on Paper - Plums with Clouds oil on paper 40 x 30” 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548787113834-RZZVN2US1P8DKGPRLOET/plums+with+clouds+2008+40_+x30_.jpg Other Works on Paper - Plums with Clouds oil on paper 40 x 30” 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703985605252-BXI463H5XYO4ZJJ5CMQN/286_Study-for-Cumquats.jpg Other Works on Paper - Study for Kumquats chalk on paper 30.25” x 39” 1981 private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1752028649129-9MBJVDPW7LHSOOG4CALM/1247_DiscoBall-With-Peonies_36x51in_OilonPaperwPastel_2011.jpg Other Works on Paper - Disco Ball with Peonies oil on paper with pastel 36 × 51” 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1759013049709-ANJOMOCBLFLNM3JVBXUF/image-asset.jpeg Other Works on Paper - Patterns on the Rock oil on mounted paper 22.5” x 30” 2006 https://www.harrietshorr.com/journal-entries daily 0.75 2023-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703983918793-2JXLI9T2W6SPWTS7OW1R/HSJournal_Summer19720002.JPG Journal Entries - Journal entry, 1972 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703983918793-2JXLI9T2W6SPWTS7OW1R/HSJournal_Summer19720002.JPG Journal Entries - Journal entry, 1972 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703983850692-BI5XLFH1K15K5OA4LWGA/HS-Journal_1978-81-IdeasforAbstractPaintings-01.JPG Journal Entries - Journal entry, 1978 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1703984092990-KXJ9EHYMS83ZSBG0ID13/HS-Journal_1986-87-01.JPG Journal Entries - Journal entry, 1986 “Today tried to make a drawing using the method I always tell my students but never use—cut a rectangle proportional to the canvas size to locate the composition + of course it still didn’t work. My struggles with adjusting my perception to the rectangle of the canvas are either based on some fundamental ignorance of a simple law or on the peculiarities of my hybrid point of view. I am fairly sure it is the latter.” Harriet Shorr https://www.harrietshorr.com/reviews daily 0.75 2019-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1548705693815-DEV8AHIERPK1K37BIGN9/artifice.jpg Reviews Harriet Shorr, Artifice, 2000. oil on canvas, 70 x 60” https://www.harrietshorr.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4f344189c17240ce118ad2/1593967153607-9VWGWPOT280JGDLID0OS/HS_8133.jpg Contact https://www.harrietshorr.com/curriculumvitae daily 0.75 2019-03-20