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Ruth bat-Seraph was born near Jerusalem in Israel. Only portions of her personal history and career are known prior to her public debut. Ruthie's father was in the Israeli Air Force and she grew up living with her brother and her parents. When her mutant abilities developed at adolescence, Ruth's family was brought to a special living community to monitor her powers' development and train her in their use on behalf of the state. Upon reaching the age of service, she was given exotic technology to wield in the field as the first (and thus far only) known Israeli Super-Agent. As Sabra, she served the Mossad as a secret agent and acted openly as a super-hero around Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. However, the government kept her identity secret for a time, maintaining a separate career for Ruth bat-Seraph as a policewoman. This subterfuge was eventually dropped, and Ruth bat-Seraph became publicly known as Sabra.
Sabra was a loyal daughter of Israel and dedicated to her country's ideals. Her faith was tested several times during her career, though. After discovering her powers could be shared with another person, Ruth's idealism led her to use this aspect of her abilities to rescue a junkie she found dying in an alleyway. The power transfer not only saved the woman's life but gave her half of Sabra's powers, leading her to take the codename Windstorm. Although she initially trained with Sabra's military contacts as the next Super-Agent, Windstorm became disillusioned with the Israeli government and went rogue. Windstorm abandoned Sabra, joining a terrorist organization known as Israelis for Anarchy and disappeared. [Marvel Super-Heroes (2nd series) #6]
On one mission, Sabra confronted the power of Hydra in Tel Aviv. She defeated the overt threat, a massive killer robot, but Hydra struck her from behind with a gene inhibitor that cancelled her mutant powers temporarily. She was captured, but managed to reassert some of her power by force of wil This exhibition includes some 70 prints that span six decades of the career of artist Sabra Field, one of Middlebury’s most celebrated alumnae. Nearly all come from the College’s repository of Field’s work, a gift to the Museum that has been growing as the indefatigable artist maintains her active production schedule. In addition to many of her signature Vermont landscapes, mythological suites, and portraits, the exhibition includes the revelatory 2015 documentary film Sabra by Dartmouth professor William Phillips. The installation is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with a deeply personal, informative essay on the artist by Middlebury alumna Nancy Price Graff. Among the most highly lauded artists in the state, Field was named “an Extraordinary Vermonter” by then Governor Madeleine Kunin in 1990 and a “Vermont Living Treasure” by the Shelburne Craft School a decade later. Commissioned by the United States Postal Service to design a commemorative stamp on the occasion of the Vermont Bicentennial, Field’s image sold more than 60 million copies and became a best-seller for the USPS as well as a marketing bonanza for the Vermont Travel Division. She has also designed imagery for calendars, credit cards, wine bottle labels, UNICEF cards, and hot air balloons. IBM, the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, Billings Farm in Woodstock, Vermont Public Television, Vermont Life magazine, and the Darmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, as well as her alma mater, have all commissioned her designs. Relying on an iconography of green pastures, windrows lying in soft curves, an old red barn, blue hills, and a blue sky that goes on forever, her landscape designs conjure up a pastoral idyll that has enormous public appeal. As Graff writes, “If naming something is to own it, then Sabra Field owns Vermont’s color wheel. Her iconic images of Vermont’s vibrant landscape feature green fields, blue skies, white clouds, and purple mountain majesties.” Plenty, the 82-year-old printmaker soon proves. Take her 1962 illustration of a family of sunny, smiling hippos. “Here is the birth announcement for my first child, Barclay Giddings Johnson III, ‘Clay’ for short,” she writes in an accompanying caption. “He was a handsome boy, a fearless skier, full of the joy of life, loved and admired by adults and kids alike. Hit by a car just short of his 10th birthday, he died two days later.” Next comes a 1965 self-portrait featuring more shadows than light. “This is me the year I grew up, age 30,” she writes, “when my parents died within a week of each other.” Then there’s the 2011 panorama “Sea, Sand, Stones” that Field composed while visiting Hawaii with her husband. “Spen died suddenly on our favorite island, Kauai, from complications dating back to cancer seven years earlier,” she writes. “A set of these prints now hangs in Wilcox Memorial Hospital in Lihue in Spen’s memory. The ER doctor who tried so hard to save him has become a good friend.” Most Vermonters think of Field for works as colorful and carefree as the red barn, blue sky and green hills she created for a 1991 U.S. postage stamp that sold more than 60 million copies. “Over the course of her career she has received any number of accolades, and has been variously described as ‘the Grant Wood of Vermont,’ ‘the artist laureate of Vermont,’ and as someone who ‘has touched more lives than any Vermont artist in history,’” says Richard Saunders, a Middlebury College professor and director of its Museum of Art. But the surprisingly personal “Sabra Field, Then and Now: A Retrospective” on campus through Aug. 13 reveals as much about her private struggles as her professional success. Field, born in Oklahoma and raised in
[M]IDDLEBURY — The first words of a new exhibit celebrating one of Vermont’s most recognized artists sum up the seeming dilemma: “What can one say about Sabra Field’s work that has not already been said?”“The direction of one’s wishes”
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