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Tacked to the wall of Sabra Field's South Royalton printmaking studio is a small note that reads, "An artist is her own fault." The quote from John O'Hara (modified from "his" to "her") was given to Field by Vermont sculptor Kate Pond.

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The curious excerpt is a small, if sideways, gesture to the self-possession and fortitude that have helped Field, now 82, become not only a successful and multifaceted artist but a Vermont icon.

Born in Oklahoma and raised in New York, Field graduated from Middlebury College in 1957 as the institution's first-ever art major.

This summer, her alma mater commemorates the milestone with its second retrospective of her work, "Sabra Field, Now and Then: A Retrospective," at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. The exhibition includes several of the printmaker's "greatest hits," scenes that distill Vermont's storied landscape and bucolic fantasies into visual archetypes.

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