Nicholas James Harris ~ Artworks

This site provides rotating selections of my paintings, plein air oil sketches, watercolors, drawings, etchings and lithographs.

Links or URLs for videos, news clips and articles can be found when relevant at the bottom of pages.

Please note: this is a non-commercial site. Artworks displayed on this site are NOT being sold over the web.

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Click here for a PDF catalog of my work.

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If you have questions, comments or wish to be added to a mailing list, feel free to send an email to NJHarrisART@gmail.com.

All images are covered by artist copyright and can only be used for private study purposes.

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Examples of Paintings

Attic > >

Examples of Oil Plein Air Studies

Carson and Boon plien aire sketch >

Examples of Watercolors

Window View from Youth Hostel, Paris during Cresson trip >

Examples of Drawings

Baby Drawing of my neice Jessica >

Examples of Prints - Etchings and Lithographs

Rue Poppencourt >

Examples of PDF file on Gallery Notes in development

Example of sketches in gallery notebooks: Rembrand's self portrait in NGA >

Special Themes

Occasionally I will post a page grouping images on a special theme. You can access these pages below...

Plein Air Studies of the SS United States during her final months in Philadelphia

UnitedStatesEphemera >

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Plein Air Studies along the Wissahickon

Walnut Lane Bridging The Wissahickon WinterLight >

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~~~~~ A film by John Thornton: Spaces of Light: the Art of Nicholas James Harris ~~~~~

John Thornton is a filmmaker whose John Thornton Films youtube site (https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnThornton) has films on artists from Philadelphia, the surrounding region, and as far afield as the UK.

They are worth watching, providing an insight into the wide variety of work done in the shadow of Billy Penn, and the quirky environment in which it all happens. I particularly like the 'Artists in the Time of Pandemic' playlist.

In the winter of 2025 he decided to do a film on my work:

Other background information...

Exhibitions current as of April 2026

Examples of Reviews

'ArtistsExhibitHijacksTheImagination' c. Daily Press, 2005

'HarrisOilsApproachWarp2' c. Kurzman 1988

Feel free to send an email (if clicking does not get you there, the address is NJHarrisART@gmail.com).

Please note: all images are covered by artist copyright and can only be used for private study purposes