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Decorative illustration by Artist Galleries: rolling hill-farm country with striped fields and hedgerows. Not a work by Sabra Field.

Artist

Sabra Field

A Vermont printmaker who opened her own studio in 1969 to publish her hand-pulled color woodcuts, and who designed the 1991 Vermont statehood stamp.12

33 sold on eBaymedian $995snapshot 13 November 2026

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What Sabra Field prints sell for

Recent eBay sold listings for Sabra Field ranged from $273 to $19,870, with a median of $995 (33 sold listings, collected 13 November 2026).

Low
$273
25th percentile
$750
Median
$995
75th percentile
$1,500
High
$19,870

Woodblock prints overall: 16 sold, $295 to $1,800, median $1,280.

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At a glance

Medium
Hand-pulled woodcuts on Japanese paper. From about 1993 also IRIS ink-jet prints, and later giclée and archival pigment prints made from her woodcuts.3456
Publisher
Self-published from her own studio. Her press is the Tontine Press, East Barnard, Vermont, established 1969.17
Active
Exhibiting prints since 1960; her Vermont studio dates from 1969. The latest dated item we found on her site is from 2019.18
Born
1935, Tulsa, Oklahoma1

About Sabra Field

Sabra Field was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1935 and grew up in the New York area. She graduated from Middlebury College in 1957 and took a master’s degree at Wesleyan University, where she learned woodblock printing.1910

She taught high school art for seven years, then moved to an old tavern in East Barnard, Vermont. Her own accounts date the move to 1967 or to 1969; the Middlebury College Museum of Art says she established her press there, the Tontine Press, in 1969.1107

She publishes her own work. For most of her career that meant woodcuts printed by hand on Japanese paper, some in numbered editions and some in open editions. By 2001 she counted more than 400 titles.1111213

Around 1993 she began making IRIS ink-jet prints with the printer Jon Cone. In 2009 she announced giclée editions made from her relief prints, saying it was no longer necessary to pull editions by hand. By 2015 she described her method as hand-printing as far as her best proof, then having a master printer produce the edition as archival pigment prints.4156

She designed the 1991 United States postage stamp for the Vermont bicentennial, and her own site called her best known for it. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, which holds one of each print she has made, gave her retrospectives in 2002 and 2017. She calls her style abstract realism.1910714

Several prints were made with her husband, Spencer Field, a wildlife artist who also managed the business. He died in 2010. In January 2025 VTDigger reported that she was set to celebrate her ninetieth birthday that April.1015

Print pages

Sabra Field prints on this site

No.TitleYearEditionRecent sold
01 Boiling 19993 3003 none in snapshot
02 Valley of the White River 197716 Open edition16 $900, $19,870 (2 sold)
03 Hill Farm Autumn 19841117 Open edition11 $1,484, $295 (2 sold)
04 Hill Farm Winter 198118 Open edition1819 none in snapshot
05 Windrows [year not confirmed] 900 (auction houses)202122 $810 (1 sold)
06 Flyway 198423 Open edition23 $1,280 (1 sold)
07 Three Geese [year not confirmed] [edition size not confirmed] $950 (1 sold)
08 Pomfret View 199724 30024 $1,350 (1 sold)
09 September Corn 19982526 Open edition25 $710 (1 sold)
10 Twilight 200027 Open edition27 $3,495 (1 sold)
11 Valley Snow [year not confirmed] [edition size not confirmed] $1,800 (1 sold)
12 Bon Giorno 200628 30028 $455 (1 sold)

“Recent sold” figures are eBay sold listings collected 13 November 2026. A range is given only where a title sold three or more times.

Sold on eBay

Individual sales in the snapshot

Sabra Field prints mostly sell one at a time, so a range for each title would mean little. These are the individual sold listings collected 13 November 2026.

Title as listedSold forNote
Three Geese$950
September Corn$710
Windrows$810
Flyway$1,280
Twilight$3,495
Pomfret View$1,350
Valley of the White River$900
Valley of the White River$19,870signed triptych
Hill Farm Autumn$1,484
Hill Farm Autumn$295
Bon Giorno$455
Valley Snow$1,800

Where a seller accepted a Best Offer, eBay shows the asking price, so true prices can be lower. The listings do not always say whether a print is a hand-pulled woodcut or a later ink-jet print.

What do I have?

How to identify a Sabra Field print

She signs her prints in pencil and calls the pencil signature her guarantee: it means she has seen, signed and approved the print. That applies to her ink-jet prints as well as her hand-pulled woodcuts, so the signature alone does not tell you which you have.612

The same image can exist as a hand-pulled woodcut and as a later ink-jet print. When the blocks of an open edition wore out, a proof was scanned and printed as an IRIS print. Her catalog names the medium of each print: “Woodcut on Japanese Paper”, “IRIS Print” or “Archival Pigment”.4611

Her IRIS prints carry a small “hand” chop next to the signature: her own handprint, showing white against color. Her woodcuts do not. In 2009 she used the same chop to mark giclée prints. Later she stopped adding it to archival pigment prints, so a print with no chop is not necessarily a hand-pulled woodcut.456

Paper is the other clue. She describes IRIS paper as stiff and her woodblock paper as flexible, and says archival pigment prints are on sturdier, whiter paper. Under glass, she says, an IRIS print is hard to tell from a woodcut.46

Her editions are either numbered or open. Edition sizes on the catalog pages we read run from 75 to 300, and she has said an open edition may be published unnumbered. One auction house describes an open-edition print as signed in pencil and not numbered.1229330

On a hand-pulled woodcut in the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, the title is written in pencil at lower left, the edition number at lower center and the signature at lower right. That print is signed “Sabra Johnson Field”; a dealer notes that early in her career she was known as Sabra Johnson.3132

Sizes in her catalog are image sizes. The sheet has margins of about two inches all round.11

Prints made with her husband are credited “(With Spencer Field)” in her catalog. Auction houses report such prints signed by both.2333

She printed her hand-pulled editions with rubber-base ink, and says the inks of her later ink-jet prints resist light much better.5

Her images were also sold as posters, note cards and calendars. An auction house describes one Hill Farm Summer image as an offset lithograph poster.8343517

[blind stamp or embossed mark on hand-pulled woodcuts not confirmed]

[whether open-edition woodcuts were ever numbered not confirmed]

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Sources

  1. About Sabra Field / About the Artist (archived 3 June 2004). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  2. Sabra Field. Wikipedia, revised 28 May 2026. Read 13 November 2026.
  3. "Boiling" - Sabra Field, Printmaker (archived 21 July 2001). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  4. Frequently Asked Questions About IRIS Prints (archived 3 June 2004). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  5. Giclee Editions Made from Relief Prints (archived 10 August 2009). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive, July 2009. Read 13 November 2026.
  6. Archival Pigment Prints Made from Woodcuts (archived 22 November 2015). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  7. Sabra Field: Abstract Realist (exhibition text supplied by Middlebury College Museum of Art). Resource Library Magazine / Traditional Fine Arts Organization (republishing museum-supplied text), 2002. Read 13 November 2026.
  8. 50th Anniversary poster (archived 17 November 2019). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  9. Sabra Field, Now and Then: A Retrospective. Middlebury College Museum of Art. Read 13 November 2026.
  10. About the Artist - Sabra Field's Online Gallery (archived 22 November 2015). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  11. "Hill Farm Autumn" - Sabra Field, Printmaker (archived 11 July 2001). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  12. Printmaker Sabra Field's Curiosity Is Relentless. IRK Magazine, 11 March 2020. Read 13 November 2026.
  13. SabraField.Com - Out of Print Titles (archived 23 August 2001). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  14. Sabra Field (commentary by Tom Slayton). Vermont Public (VPR Archive), 6 January 2005. Read 13 November 2026.
  15. How 1975 sparked the state Vermonters are in today. VTDigger, 1 January 2025. Read 13 November 2026.
  16. "Valley Of The White River" - Sabra Field, Printmaker (archived 20 August 2004). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  17. Sabra Field - sold at auction, page 2 (lot listings incl. Merrill's 'Hill Farm Quartet', Jeffrey S. Evans 'Valley of the White River'). Invaluable. Read 13 November 2026.
  18. "Hill Farm Winter" - Sabra Field, Printmaker (archived 26 April 2001). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  19. "Hill Farm Winter" - Sabra Field, Printmaker (archived 26 January 2008). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  20. Lot 77: Sabra Field (VT 1935-) Windrows - (Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers, sale of January 19, 2024). Invaluable, 19 January 2024. Read 13 November 2026.
  21. Lot 231: Sabra Field (VT 1935-) Windrows (Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers, sale of May 2, 2025). Invaluable, 2 May 2025. Read 13 November 2026.
  22. Sabra Field - sold at auction, page 3 (lot listings incl. Merrill's 'Windrows' AP, 'Flyway'). Invaluable. Read 13 November 2026.
  23. "Flyway (With Spencer Field)" - Sabra Field, Printmaker (archived 27 April 2001). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  24. "Pomfret View" - Sabra Field, Printmaker (archived 28 May 2001). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  25. "September Corn" - Sabra Field, Printmaker (archived 27 April 2001). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  26. Six Decades of Sabra Field, This Summer at Middlebury. Middlebury College Museum of Art, May 12, 2017. Read 13 November 2026.
  27. "Twilight (With Spencer Field)" - Sabra Field, Printmaker (archived 29 July 2001). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  28. "Bon Giorno" - Sabra Field, Printmaker (archived 29 October 2006). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  29. "The Valleys Are Covered With Corn" - Sabra Field, Printmaker (archived 11 July 2001). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  30. Sabra Field (VT 1935-) "Flyway" (Merrill's Auctioneers and Appraisers). LiveAuctioneers. Read 13 November 2026.
  31. Dartmouth Hall, Snowfall | Hood Museum. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth. Read 13 November 2026.
  32. "Full Moon" by Sabra Johnson Field, Amer., (B. 1935). Marc Chabot Fine Arts. Read 13 November 2026.
  33. Sabra Field - sold at auction, page 5 (lot listings incl. Merrill's 'Valley of the White River', Butterscotch 'Sheet of Vermont Stamps'). Invaluable. Read 13 November 2026.
  34. Note Cards (archived 17 November 2019). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  35. Sabra Field 2020 Calendar (archived 9 August 2022). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  36. Sabra Field: The Art of Place (edition record, ISBN 9781584652663). Open Library (Internet Archive). Read 13 November 2026.
  37. In Sight, Field. University of Chicago Press (distributor page for University Press of New England). Read 13 November 2026.
  38. Sabra Field on Film: A New Doc Celebrates Her Life and Work. Seven Days, 30 December 2015. Read 13 November 2026.
  39. "Sabra" - The Life and Work of Printmaker Sabra Field (DVD) (archived 10 December 2015). sabrafield.com (the artist’s site), archived by the Internet Archive. Read 13 November 2026.
  40. Sabra Field marks 50th year making Vermont art. VTDigger, 7 July 2019. Read 13 November 2026.