biography of Onni SAARI (1920-1992)

Birth place: Harrisville, NH

Death place: upstate New York

Addresses: NYC, c.1945-91

Profession: Abstract painter, illustrator

Studied: Manchester (NH); BMFA Sch.; Paris

Exhibited: NYC galleries, 1940s-50s; Harrisville Designs, NH (memorial exh.)

Comments: An abstract painter, he earned a living as a book and record jacket designer. Although he was a friend of many of the New York School abstract artists of the 1940s-50s, he became increasingly reclusive and refused to exhibit or sell his paintings.

Sources: press release courtesy Edie Clark (1998)