Perhaps no artist is more identified with having captured Vermont's pastoral qualities than Sabra Field. In 1987, her Vermont bicentennial commemorative stamp became one of the US Postal Service's best-selling stamps.

After growing up in the metropolitan New York area, she earned a B.A. from Middlebury College, an M.A.T. degree from Wesleyan University, and in 1967 made the migration from suburb to tiny Vermont Village. It was there that she met her husband Spencer, a wild life artist, and started her career as a professional artist.

It was in Joe Ablow's Renaissance Art course at Middlebury College where Sabra's philosophies about art were born, and it seems only natural that Sabra's entire collection has found its home at the Middlebury College Museum of Art.

"I began making prints with Butch Limbach at Wesleyan University in 1958, and I've been making them in Vermont for over 40 years. My place is my subject matter. My heroes go back to the landscapists of Hellenistic Greece...

My prints are more like recollections than snapshots, more metaphor than narrative. Woodblock encourages simplicity. Printmaking makes it possible to speak the language of vision with many people."