Patriot

Date: 1954

Medium: Papier-mâché and fur

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 6 1/2 inches

Edition: 1

Related Information

Exhibitions:
Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY, Paul Harris, September 20–October 8, 1960

Chronology Excerpt:
Opens his first solo exhibition with Poindexter Gallery, on view from May 19 to June 6 at 21 West 56th Street alongside the British sculptor Mary Frank (b. 1933)—his first in New York City. A reviewer in Arts remarks: “With a certain specific, contemporary anecdote in mind, Paul Harris molds papier-mache into a sturdy, critical, witty series of nine masks . . . Patriot glitters in glaucous, snowy enamel, triumphantly coifed in yellow-white hair, her sightless socketed eyes ready to ferret out subversion, the oval, lipless mouth continually in chatter, wherein is seen her triumphant red, white and blue tongue.”