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        Sam Hugh Harris

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        Sam Hugh Harris (1919-2018)

         

         

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        • Artist, poet and writer, Sam Hugh Harris painted in the great traditions of Modern Art including Impressionism and Symbolism. He was one of the longest standing members of the reputable Carmel Art Association. At a young age, Sam started his vocation under the tutelage of his father Sam Hyde Harris (1889-1977) who distinguished himself as an early California plein air landscape painter. Sam graduated from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Carmel Art Institute, studying figurative and still life painting. He was the pupil of John Cunningham and Alexander Archipenko and befriended John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath). He was also part of a group of Monterey artists called "The New Group". Sam lived, painted and exhibited in Paris and Rome throughout the 1960s and 1970s. 

          Sam Harris was born in Los Angeles, California in 1919. The son of well-known California plein air artist, Sam Hyde Harris, he settled on the same vocation at an early age. Sam Jr. would often venture out into the local landscape to paint and learn from his father. After high school, and during The Great Depression, Sam received a four-year scholarship to the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles on the strength of his painting and early etchings (some of which are in The Lost Art Collection). At the Otis Institute he studied with Ralph Homes, George Biddle, Alexander Brook, Edourard Vysekal, and others.

          Sam was drafted into World War II and served from 1941-1945 in the US Air Force. While stationed in China he studied Chinese brush painting under Professor Dong of Kumming, learning the art of silk and rice paper painting. While stationed in India he painted several large murals for the US Special Services. Sam would also paint portraits of his fellow soldiers as a way of earning money. During his time in India, he was introduced to meditation. Later, Sam would have a significant spiritual practice (Anthroposophy) which would play an important role in his artistic and personal life.

          After the War, Sam moved to Monterey, CA with his wife Gertrude and studied at the Carmel Art Institute with John Cunningham and Alexander Archipenko, among others. He rented a small studio on Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey and often painted the harbor and boats. There he would meet John Steinbeck (the author of Cannery Row and The Grapes of Wrath) and Ed Ricketts (the famed ecologist and philosopher). Sam exhibited with other Monterey artists known as “The New Group” at the Pal Wall Gallery in Monterey.

          Sam supported his young family by designing and building homes and carving custom furniture. He was an avid sailor and he designed and built various innovative sail boats. He raced with the Monterey Yacht Club and once sailed to Mexico with his brother and fellow artist, Pat Carey (whose work is also in the Lost Art Collection). Sam was a bon vivant with a bohemian spirit. In Carmel he sang with various choral groups and joined a folkloric dance troupe. In 1963, after a long illness, his wife Gertrude died at a young age.

          At this point, Sam decided to radically change his life. He sold his house and moved to Paris with his young daughter where his art career flourished. He lived in the Latin Quarter and drove a little 1100 Fiat. He exhibited in one-person shows (including at the Rothschild’s Chateau) and made much of his living with commissioned portraits. During his five years in Paris, he met an Italian woman from Rome named Silvana. They explored the French countryside in their Fiat and peddled around town on a tandem bicycle they picked up at the flea market. On one of their excursions, they ventured to Mont St. Michel, where Sam painted a significant oil of the island commune. Eventually their romance turned into a marriage and in 1969 they moved back to Carmel, California. With them they carried approximately fifty paintings from Paris.

          In 1973, Sam and Silvana would live in Rome and he would exhibit widely throughout the city selling portraits, city scenes and landscapes. Many of those paintings from Paris and Rome are in the Lost Art Collection. Over the decades, Silvana and Sam would shuttle back and forth between California and Italy where Silvana had an extended family. In their Carmel home Sam painted an enormous mural of Rome as a gift to Silvana.

          Sam Hugh Harris painted in a style that reflected many of the great traditions of Modern Art, including Impressionism. He employed aspects of Symbolism to express his Anthroposophical spiritual beliefs. Sam was one of the longest standing members of the Carmel Art Association and painted into his final years. He died in Carmel, in 2018. Over the course of his ninety-nine years, he consistently painted self-portraits. We are fortunate to present many of these, spanning the 1940s through the 2010s.

          Exhibition Highlights:

          1944: G.W.V. Smith Gallery (Massachusetts, USA)
          1946: Carmel Art Association (Carmel, CA)
          1950: Pebble Beach Art Gallery (California, US)
          1951: Anthroposophical Society (New York, USA)
          1954: Crocker Art Gallery (Now the Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA)
          1965: OCSE, Château de la Muette (Paris, France)
          1966: Galerie de la 16ème (Paris, France)
          1972: Balleria “Il Babuino (Rome, Italy)
          1975: Galleria “La Fornarina” (Rome, Italy)
          1991: Sala Santa Rita (Rome, Italy)

          We would like to thank Colleen Harris, his niece and the Carmel Art Association for bringing the work and story of Sam Hugh Harris to Lost Art Salon.
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        Geometric Color Study Abstract <br>1999 Oil <br><br>#B3978
        Geometric Color Study Abstract
        1999 Oil

        #B3978
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $3,385
        Sold
        <i>Still Life with Yellow Drape</i> <br>Early 1940s Oil <br><br>#B3626
        Still Life with Yellow Drape
        Early 1940s Oil

        #B3626
        Sam Hugh Harris $1,975
        <i>Au Vrai Saumor</i> <br>1960s Oil <br><br>#B3517
        Au Vrai Saumor
        1960s Oil

        #B3517
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,450
        Sold
        <i>Square St. Medard</i> <br>1965 Oil <br><br>#B3521
        Square St. Medard
        1965 Oil

        #B3521
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,785
        Sold
        <i>Portrait of Sheila</i> <br>Mid Century Oil <br><br>#B3547
        Portrait of Sheila
        Mid Century Oil

        #B3547
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $2,750
        Sold
        Portrait with a Goatee <br>1940-50s Oil <br><br>#B3491
        Portrait with a Goatee
        1940-50s Oil

        #B3491
        Sam Hugh Harris $1,450
        Sold
        <i>Portrait with Lute</i> <br>1960 Oil <br><br>#B3417
        Portrait with Lute
        1960 Oil

        #B3417
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $2,475
        Sold
        <i>Evening in Paris</i> <br>1960s Oil <br><br>#B3361
        Evening in Paris
        1960s Oil

        #B3361
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,995
        Sold
        <I>Portofino Afternoon</i> <br>20th Century OIl <br><br>#B3380
        Portofino Afternoon
        20th Century OIl

        #B3380
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $2,375
        Sold
        Parisian Scene with the Eiffel Tower <br>1960s Oil <br><br>#B3388
        Parisian Scene with the Eiffel Tower
        1960s Oil

        #B3388
        Sam Hugh Harris $1,275
        Elegant Female Portrait <br>1964 Oil <br><br>#B3437
        Elegant Female Portrait
        1964 Oil

        #B3437
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $2,950
        Sold
        <i>Resting Model</i> <br>1960s Oil <br><br>#B3420
        Resting Model
        1960s Oil

        #B3420
        Sam Hugh Harris $2,450
        <i>Self Protrait</i> <br>Circa 1940 Oil <br><br>#B3486
        Self Protrait
        Circa 1940 Oil

        #B3486
        Sam Hugh Harris $2,350
        Minimalist Coastal Scene <br>Late 1930s Etching <br><br>#B3144
        Minimalist Coastal Scene
        Late 1930s Etching

        #B3144
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,495
        Sold
        Gentleman with Cap <br>Late 1930s Etching <br><br>#B3150
        Gentleman with Cap
        Late 1930s Etching

        #B3150
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,350
        Sold
        Modernist Abstracted Figure, Artist Print <br>1940s Etching <br><br>#B3475
        Modernist Abstracted Figure, Artist Print
        1940s Etching

        #B3475
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $875
        Sold
        <i>Au Vieux Paris</i> <br>1967 Oil <br><br>#B3431
        Au Vieux Paris
        1967 Oil

        #B3431
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $3,950
        Sold
        Man Reading in a Doorway <br>20th Century Oil <br><br>#B3464
        Man Reading in a Doorway
        20th Century Oil

        #B3464
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,650
        Sold
        European City Scene <br>Mid Century Oil <br><br>#B3479
        European City Scene
        Mid Century Oil

        #B3479
        Sam Hugh Harris $1,575
        <i>Roma</i> <br>1960s Oil <br><br>#B3426
        Roma
        1960s Oil

        #B3426
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $2,850
        Sold
        <i>San Blas, Mexico</i> <br>Mid Century Oil <br><br>#B3471
        San Blas, Mexico
        Mid Century Oil

        #B3471
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $875
        Sold
        <i>Mont St. Michel</i> <br>1960s Oil <br><br>#B3433
        Mont St. Michel
        1960s Oil

        #B3433
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $4,450
        Sold
        <i>Capri</i> <br>Mid Century Oil <br><br>#B3494
        Capri
        Mid Century Oil

        #B3494
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $675
        Sold
        <i>Pacific Surge</i> <br>Mid Century Watercolor <br><br>#B3148
        Pacific Surge
        Mid Century Watercolor

        #B3148
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,175
        Sold
        <i>Windward Shore</i> <br>Mid Century Watercolor <br><br>#B3139
        Windward Shore
        Mid Century Watercolor

        #B3139
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,275
        Sold
        Female Protrait in Profile <br>1966 Watercolor & Ink <br><br>#B3142
        Female Protrait in Profile
        1966 Watercolor & Ink

        #B3142
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,275
        Sold
        Dreamy Abstracted Nude <br>Mid Century Watercolor & Graphite <br><br>#B3156
        Dreamy Abstracted Nude
        Mid Century Watercolor & Graphite

        #B3156
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $695
        Sold
        <i>Weather</i> <br>Late 1930s Etching <br><br>#B3146
        Weather
        Late 1930s Etching

        #B3146
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $875
        Sold
        <i>Pan</i> <br>1960-70s Oil <br><br>#B3444
        Pan
        1960-70s Oil

        #B3444
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,650
        Sold
        <i>Red Haired Girl</i> <br>1960s Oil <br><br>#B3158
        Red Haired Girl
        1960s Oil

        #B3158
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $875
        Sold
        <i>Passage Dauphine, Paris</i> <br>1960s Oil <br><br>#B4121
        Passage Dauphine, Paris
        1960s Oil

        #B4121
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,475
        Sold
        Striking Female Portrait <br>1960-70s Oil <br><br>#B3539
        Striking Female Portrait
        1960-70s Oil

        #B3539
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,165
        Sold
        <i>Chinese Woman with Yellow Butterfly</i> <br>1967 Gouache <br><br>#B3553
        Chinese Woman with Yellow Butterfly
        1967 Gouache

        #B3553
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $685
        Sold
        Elegant Standing Nude <br>Mid Century Watercolor & Graphite <br><br>#B3556
        Elegant Standing Nude
        Mid Century Watercolor & Graphite

        #B3556
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $475
        Sold
        <i>Harbor in Greece</i> <br>Mid Century Oil <br><br>#B3560
        Harbor in Greece
        Mid Century Oil

        #B3560
        Sam Hugh Harris $1,450
        <i>The Seagull</i> <br>Mid Century Oil <br><br>#B3537
        The Seagull
        Mid Century Oil

        #B3537
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $975
        Sold
        <i>Female Bathers in a Mythic Scene</i> <br>Mid Century Oil <br><br>#B3552
        Female Bathers in a Mythic Scene
        Mid Century Oil

        #B3552
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $685
        Sold
        Elegant Sleeping Nude <br>1960s Encaustic <br><br>#B3536
        Elegant Sleeping Nude
        1960s Encaustic

        #B3536
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $765
        Sold
        Reclining Nude Drawing <br>Mid Century Watercolor & Charcoal <br><br>#B3557
        Reclining Nude Drawing
        Mid Century Watercolor & Charcoal

        #B3557
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $450
        Sold
        Abstracted California Coast with Trees<br>Mid Century Watercolor <br><br>#B3554
        Abstracted California Coast with Trees
        Mid Century Watercolor

        #B3554
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $565
        Sold
        <i>Marine Station</i> <br>Mid Century Watercolor <br><br>#B3558
        Marine Station
        Mid Century Watercolor

        #B3558
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $785
        Sold
        <i>Distant View of Sienna</i> <br>20th Century Watercolor <br><br>#B3571
        Distant View of Sienna
        20th Century Watercolor

        #B3571
        Sam Hugh Harris $850
        Playful Orangutan in Tree <br>Mid Century Oil <br><br>#B3535
        Playful Orangutan in Tree
        Mid Century Oil

        #B3535
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $745
        Sold
        <i>Clemens</i> <br>1967 Oil <br><br>#B3533
        Clemens
        1967 Oil

        #B3533
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,750
        Sold
        <i>In The Louvre</i> <br>1965 Oil <br><br>#B4709
        In The Louvre
        1965 Oil

        #B4709
        Sam Hugh Harris $2,450
        European Harbor with Boats <br>1950-60s Oil <br><br>#B4712
        European Harbor with Boats
        1950-60s Oil

        #B4712
        Sam Hugh Harris Sold $1,250
        Sold
        <i>Venice</i> <br>Mid Century Oil <br><br>#B4716
        Venice
        Mid Century Oil

        #B4716
        Sam Hugh Harris $1,250
        Pont Neuf with Boat <br>1960s Oil <br><br>#B6430
        Pont Neuf with Boat
        1960s Oil

        #B6430
        Sam Hugh Harris $1,350
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