HARRIET WISEMAN
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#664 Bird

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 #665 Donkey

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#666 Cat

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 #668 Unicorn

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#675 Look Alike

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 #689 Stork

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#690 Young Artist

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#692 Peacock

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#697 Dog

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 #710 Lion

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#706 Artist Studying Her Work

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 #707 Woman With Red Hair

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#Woman With A Shawl

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 #714 Three Women

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#610 Cafe Conversation

36x40
on wood

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 #649 After the Party

40x36
on wood

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Woman and Two Children #524

acrylic on antique leather book cover

21 x 23 inches

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 Woman in a Hat #574

acrylic on antique leather book cover

20 x 24 inches

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#661 Cinema Line

29x24
on wood

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 #553 Piano Recital

26x28
on wood

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#684
Matched

20-1/2 x 18-1/2
on wood

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 #679
Tenderness

28x24

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Mother with Child #595

acrylic on antique leather book cover

19 x 22 inches

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 Woman in Profile #580

acrylic on antique leather book cover

22 x 26 inches

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#659
Lady in Blue

17x14

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#648 Best Friensds

29x23
on wood

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#629 A Quite Moment

32x40
on wood

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 Mother with Childen

21 x 19-1/2 inches
on antique book cover

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Mother and Child

24 x 18 inches
on wood

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 #528 Pondering

42x281/2
on wood

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#631 Oscar Wilde

24x21-1/2

on antiqe leather book cover

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 #622 Open for Advice

35-1/2x27
on wood

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#592 Black Tie Affair

28x32

on wood

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 A Horse #640

acrylic on antique leather book cover

21 x 18 inches

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Girl in Pink #500

acrylic on antique leather book cover

19 x 16 inches

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 Red-Headed Woman #572

acrylic on paper

21 x 23 inches

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Lion

16x14 inches
watercolor on paper

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 Red Bird

16x14 inches
watercolor on paper

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Lady All Dressed Up #593

acrylic on antique leather book cover

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 Woman in Thought #603

acrylic on antique leather book cover

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Daydreaming #619

acrylic on antique leather book cover

33.5 x 28 inches

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 Redhead with Red Locket #560

acrylic on antique leather book cover

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Mother and Children #594

acrylic on antique leather book cover

17.5 x 14.5 inches

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#618

acrylic on antique leather book cover

18.5 x 22 inches

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Woman and a Bouquet #548

acrylic on antique leather book cover

24 x 21 inches

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 Mother and Children #524

acrylic on antique leather book cover

19 x 22 inches

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Her #549

acrylic on canvas

33 x 33 inches

sold

 Woman and Child #557

acrylic on cardboard

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Untitled A

Watercolor on paper

8 x 11 inches

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 Untitled B

Watercolor on paper

8 x 11 inches

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Untitled C

Watercolor on paper

8 x 11 inches

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 Untitled D

Watercolor on paper

8 x 11 inches

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Untitled E

Watercolor on paper

8 x 11 inches

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 Untitled F

Watercolor on paper

8 x 11 inches

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Untitled G

Watercolor on paper

8 x 11 inches

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 Untitled H

Watercolor on paper

8 x 11 inches

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Untitled I

Watercolor on paper

8 x 11 inches

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Untitled J

charcoal on paper

6 x 8.5 inches

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Harriet Wiseman is a Philadelphia wife, mother of two, and grandmother who began painting in 1993 at the suggestion of a therapist. As a way to access her memories and emotions, drawing and painting opened the floodgates to her expression; she has been working prolifically ever since.

Wiseman paints on antique book covers, which she collects, as well as wood, and less often canvas or paper. Her subjects emerge out of the abstract patterning of the book covers, her role is to flesh out what she sees. Wiseman also began to see images in her paint palettes.

Most of the paintings on wood were originally Wiseman's palettes, some as large as table tops, that she has worked into refined, colorful portraits.

Wisman's painting is sometimes raw and direct, her colors brooding, and shadowed. Sometimes more intentional design elements and bold, complicated color relationships are prominent, relfecting her former career as a jewelry designer. Wiseman maintains an automatic method of working where she places her focus on visual pattern, whether the design of a book cover or the arrangement of blotches of color on her paint palette. Then Wiseman's work begins to reveal itself to her. Concentration on materials is echoed in Wiseman's subject matter, where she draws from personal history as well as a larger history of women. She focuses on material culture such as clothing and jewelry to note the time and place of her subjects, and hint at the importance of these personal stylistic choices in women's lives as modes of expression.

Wiseman's subjects stare out at the viewer with deep eyes telling of complex internal lives beneath the surface. This suggestion of deeply personal worlds in the minds of her subjects is a reflection of Wiseman's need to communicate her own private world, and in this sense her paintings are all self-portraits. But Wiseman also reaches beyond herself, connecting her story to a universal one.

A respect and reverence for the past is evident in her work, it appeals to a broad audience. Harriet Wiseman, a well educated, well traveled woman, does not fit any stereotype about self-taught artists. Wiseman's artwork reminds us that creative impulse is a human need that can no more easily be catagorized or defined than contained; she is a true artist, telling a story she is compelled to tell.

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