Sarah McRae Morton
Dowling Walsh Gallery is pleased to present "Sarah McRae Morton: Time After Time,” an exhibition of new paintings by the Rockland-based artist. The exhibition will be on view in the gallery's newly renovated building at 357 Main Street in Rockland from July 5 to July 26, 2025, with a public reception scheduled for Friday, July 11, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.
Widely admired and respected for her brilliantly crafted paintings that blend history, fact and fantasy, McRae Morton grew up in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she began painting at an early age. During and after high school, she trained with the noted educator Myron Barnstone (1933-2016), who taught her the virtues of classical design, technical drafting, and harmonic color theory. She furthered her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, earning a summer residency at the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. The dream of living in Europe brought her to Cologne, Germany, where she lived for ten years, studying for a time in Rome, and with the celebrated figurative painter Odd Nerdrum, in Norway.
The exhibition, Sarah McRae Morton: Time After Time, brings together a selection of the artist’s latest paintings, exploring the intertwined nature of time and place. As curator Suzette McAvoy writes in the exhibition catalog, “In her paintings, McRae Morton leads us through history, mythology, folklore, and fables. Down rabbit holes of arcane facts and labyrinths of knowledge, spurred on by her restless brush and a desire to understand the ways of the world, human and otherwise.”
Sarah McRae Morton’s work has been exhibited across the U.S. and abroad and is in the permanent collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum. This is her fifth exhibition with Dowling Walsh Gallery.