DRAWINGS & PAINTINGS

Olaf Saaf’s sculptures are part of his exploration of the themes of New England craft and vernacular arts. Saaf often turns to landscape painters Marsden Hartley and Grandma Moses & Milton Avery, especially when considering color and texture. Olaf wants to make his influences prominent in order to display the rich artistic traditions that are isolated in rural areas. These influences might include early American gravestone carvings, furniture jointing, any of the countless self taught wood carvers.