Paul Harris: Bronzes and Drawings opens as part of the summer exhibitions at Fresno Art Museum, on view from June 13 to August 17. This show includes Anna Turning (1989), Anna in Love (1987), Kneeling Woman (1998), Balanchine’s Kitchen (1985). A text accompanying the exhibition, and to promote a public program with the artist, reads: “There is a sense of gravity born of personal discipline requiring that same pureness of simplicity found in the Shaker's utilitarian expression—or the same kind of silence found in Quaker worship that pervades Harris’s timeless world. There is a balance of geometric abstraction and natural anatomy as well as an element of elapsed time in the rounded figures and intersecting angular forms that activates the overall composition of many of his works.  It is work that has absorbed the purified abstractions of Constantin Brancusi and the formal language of Jacques Lipchitz. In all of Harris’ work there is a profound sense of care and precision—his eye as an artist, his irony as a survivor, his compassion as a humanist and his wit born of brilliance, result in a comprehensive body of work.”⁶⁸