Bonnie Harris
Bonnie Harris (born Rebecca Levine; 1870 – 1962) was an American artist.
Also recorded as Rebecca Levine · Rebecca Levin
Bonnie Harris
- Name
- Bonnie Harris
- Birth Name
- Rebecca Levine
- Born
- 1870
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Died
- 1962
- Place of death
- Jacksonville, Florida, United States
- Known for
- Painting
- Spouse
- Frank Harris (1890-?); 5 children
- Full name
- Rebecca Levin.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Bonnie Harris. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q21717780 · wikipedia · Bonnie Harris
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Bonnie Harris • Birth Name — Rebecca Levine • Born — 1870 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, United States • Died — 1962 • Place of death — Jacksonville, Florida, United States • Known for — Painting • Spouse — Frank Harris (1890-?); 5 children • Style — Still life Landscape Figurative Collage
Early life and education
Early life and education
Rebecca Levine was born to Harris Levine and Frances Myers in Chicago, Illinois in 1870.
Mid-life and career
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. She had five children, including two artist daughters: Marilee Shapiro Asher and Eleanor Harris, both artists. 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
Later life, death and legacy
Harris painted until her death in 1962, at age 91 or 92, in Jacksonville, Florida.
Notable exhibitions
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
Notable collections sea scapes
• Houses in Winter (Minneapolis), gouache on paper, 1953; Smithsonian American Art Museum
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Bonnie Harris, revision 1368947459 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Library of Congress. Harris, Bonnie, 1870-1962. Library of Congress Name Authority File.
- 2.Smithsonian Institution. Bonnie Harris. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- 3.askART. Bonnie Harris.
- 4.Hyde Park Art Center. Bonnie Harris (1870-1962).
- 5.102-Year-Old D.C. Artist Embraces A Century Of 'Dancing In The Wonder'. WAMU. 2015-07-24.
- 6.Vassar College. Three generations of artists exhibit at Vassar's Palmer Gallery. Office of Communications.
- 7.Smithsonian Institution. Houses in Winter (Minneapolis). Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- 8.University of Chicago. Outside In: Self-Taught Artists and Chicago. Smart Museum of Art University of Chicago.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 26 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Paintings
19,456 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Bonaventure LaurensArtist
- Boniface of ValpergaArtist
- Bonifacio BemboArtist
- Bonifazio VeroneseArtist
- Bono da FerraraArtist
- Boo SavilleArtist
- Børge NyropArtist
- Boris ChetkovArtist
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Bonnie Harris?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.