Bonnie Harris
{{Short description|American painter}}
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| birth_name = Rebecca Levine{{cite web|title=Harris, Bonnie, 1870-1962|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99051425.html|website=Library of Congress Name Authority File|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=15 December 2015}}
| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, United States
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1962|1870}}
| death_place = Jacksonville, Florida, United States
| nationality = American
| known_for = Painting
| spouse = Frank Harris (1890-?); 5 children
| style = Still life
Landscape
Figurative
Collage{{cite web|title=Bonnie Harris|url=http://www.askart.com/artist/Bonnie%20Rebecca%20Levine%20Harris/11250987/Bonnie%20Rebecca%20Levine%20Harris.aspx|publisher=askART|accessdate=15 December 2015}}
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Bonnie Harris (born Rebecca Levine; 1870 – 1962) was an American artist.
Early life and education
Rebecca Levine was born to Harris Levine and Frances Myers in Chicago, Illinois in 1870.
Mid-life and career
She lived in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago for 45 years. She also lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Washington, D.C., and Colorado.{{cite web|title=Bonnie Harris (1870-1962)|url=http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/bonnie-harris-18701962|publisher=Hyde Park Art Center|accessdate=15 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222093843/http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/bonnie-harris-18701962|archive-date=22 December 2015|url-status=dead}} She had five children, including two artist daughters: Marilee Shapiro Asher{{Cite web|title=102-Year-Old D.C. Artist Embraces A Century Of 'Dancing In The Wonder'|url=https://wamu.org/story/15/07/24/102_year_old_dc_artist_embraces_a_century_of_dancing_in_the_world/|date=2015-07-24|website=WAMU|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-13}} and Eleanor Harris, both artists.{{cite web|title=Three generations of artists exhibit at Vassar's Palmer Gallery|url=http://collegerelations.vassar.edu/2001/684/|website=Office of Communications|publisher=Vassar College|accessdate=15 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222150020/http://collegerelations.vassar.edu/2001/684/#|archive-date=2015-12-22|url-status=dead}} She began painting when she was 79 years old, inspired by the painting career of her daughter, Eleanor. She was self-taught. Her work was exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The Hyde Park Art Center described her style as using "bold colors reflecting a vision of a highly poetic everyday work."
Later life, death and legacy
Harris painted until her death in 1962, at age 91 or 92, in Jacksonville, Florida.
Notable collections sea scapes
- Houses in Winter (Minneapolis), gouache on paper, 1953; Smithsonian American Art Museum{{cite web|title=Houses in Winter (Minneapolis)|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=9973|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=15 December 2015}}
Notable exhibitions
- Solo retrospective, 1995, Hyde Park Art Center
- Group show, 2001, Vassar College
- "Outside In: Self-Taught Artists and Chicago", 2002, Smart Museum of Art{{cite web|title=Outside In: Self-Taught Artists and Chicago|url=http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/outside-in-self-taught-artists-and-chicago/|website=Smart Museum of Art University of Chicago|publisher=University of Chicago|accessdate=15 December 2015}}
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Category:Painters from Chicago
Category:Artists from Jacksonville, Florida
Category:19th-century American women painters
Category:19th-century American painters
Category:Jewish American artists
Category:20th-century American women painters