News and Notable — S.B. Harkins

I am honored to receive First Place awards at Spring Bull Gallery in Newport, RI from 2 separate jurors. Gerome’s Bashi Bazouk, 30 x 24” oil on canvas, in the annual Fakes and Forgeries show, and my own Veering Off the Path with Fear and Hope, 36 x 36” oil on canvas, up through April 24.

Breath Between Worlds, oil on canvas, 30 x 48”, recognizing things are not always as we perceive them.

FIRST PLACE! AWARD! Thank you to the Foundation and to the Juror, Dr. Jennifer A. Thompson, curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

After Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Bashi-Bazouk. I first saw the original hanging at the Metropolitan in New York when I was a teenager and it absolutely it took my breath away. I have always wanted to learn from creating my own copy. This one is part of the Long Beach Island Arts and Science Foundation Master Copies/Interpretations 2021 Exhibition from Saturday, July 17 to Sunday, August 15. Long Beach Island is a great place to visit!

**Night Light and Grace**, oil on Canvas 16 x 12”

Night Light and Grace, oil on Canvas 16 x 12” is hanging out in NYC at the Salmagundi Club’s City Scape Exhibition through June 24th, 2021.

Tomato Light, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30” will be part of the Maryland Federation of Art’s Food for Thought online show through July 31st, 2021

I had a wonderful experience teaching a virtual class for the Portsmouth Art Guild. This is the finished painting, video of the process coming. Afternoon Window, 18 x 24”.

Happy spring 2021! Learning the Cadence of Strive and Rest will be on display through April the 18th at the Spring Bull Gallery in Newport, RI.

Although I was not able to attend because of NYC Covid travel restrictions, Poured Out visited the Salmagundi Club for the Figuratively Speaking exhibit.

I am THRILLED to say I have been awarded First Place in Windows on Pawtucket, a Covid savvy show where work is hung in the windows of local businesses downtown. A collaborative project of The Pawtucket Foundation and RI Art League, the work will remain on display thru May 15th, 2021. You can download your own walking tour guide here, and enjoy the show with plenty of space for proper social distancing.

Sadly, no opening yet allowed, but this work looks terrific hung together! I am honored to be among such a talented group. The Providence Art Club is always free and open to the public. Gallery hours for this show are Monday through Saturday 12 - 4, or I am happy to meet you if you can not make it during those hours. Please see contact information.

I have three little pieces in the EVERYTHING SUMMER - Little Pictures Show, July 4 - 31, 2020

Spring Bull Gallery, 55 Bellevue Avenue, Newport,

The Gallery is currently open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 12-4 with Covid restrictions in place, including masks and limited hours.

**Perfect Salad,** Oil on Canvas, 12 x 12”

This was the second time I have been part of a show at the Spring Bull Studio and Gallery on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, RI. Favorite Views and Places is closing June 30th.

I was thrilled to be part of Providence Art Club’s National Show 2020. The show opened in May and the virtual gallery was full of amazing work. You can see it here on Facebook.

I was a little too young to see my own friends drafted, but people I love were greatly impacted by Viet Nam. I am honored to be part of a group illustrating the newly released book Fragments, a collection of poems just published narrating the experience. OnlineBookClub.org reviewed the book very favorably and the Providence Journal recently shared the story.

Although Covid has cancelled a few events, stay tuned for the rescheduling of the Transparent Passages show at originally scheduled to open on March 28th.

**Under the Weight of Eternal Grace,** Oil on Canvas, 20 x 16”

First Place

Just before all this started with Covid, I was honored to be awarded first place in the Fakes and Forgeries Show from the Bristol Art Museum. This is a large charcoal drawing created after one of my favorite Irving Penn photos; Cuzco Children, Cuzco, silver print, 1948, printed 1949.

Vogue published 11 of these portraits in 1949.