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Paul Harris
1925
Born in Orlando, Florida
2018
Dies in Bozeman, Montana
1950
B.A. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
1951
M.A. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
1956
Ed.D. Teachers College, Columbia University
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
1958
2 Sculptors: Mary Frank & Paul Harris. Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York.
1960
Paul Harris. Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York.
1963
Paul Harris: Collapsable Monuments. Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York.
1965
Paul Harris. Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, California.
Paul Harris. Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, California.
1966
Paul Harris. Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York.
1967
Paul Harris. Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York.
Paul Harris. Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, California.
1969
Paul Harris, Tamarind Fellowship Artist. Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., Los Angeles, California.
Paul Harris. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1970
Paul Harris: Sculpture & Lithographs. Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York.
Paul Harris. Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen, Germany.
1971
Paul Harris. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1972
Paul Harris. Traveling exhibition. San Francisco Museum of Art, California; University Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara; Art Gallery of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock.
1973
Paul Harris Sculpture. Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock.
1976
Paul Harris. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1981
Paul Harris Sculpture, Certain Pieces, 1958–1980. Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, Florida.
1982 – 1983
Paul Harris: Still Life. Traveling exhibition, The Leland Stanford Jr. Museum, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1987
Paul Harris. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1989 - 1990
Paul Harris: Works in Bronze. Traveling exhibition. Iannetti-Lazone Gallery, San Francisco, California; C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany.
1993
Paul Harris: Works in Wood / Works on Paper. Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, California.
1995
[title unknown]. Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany.
1999
Focus: Paul Harris, Certain Pieces, Drawing & Sculpture. Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California.
[title unknown]. Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California.
2000
Paul Harris: Sculpture & Drawings. College Art Gallery, College of Marin, Kentfield, California.
2001
Fabric Sculptural Works: Paul Harris. Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana.
2003
Paul Harris: Shut-In Suite. Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana.
2004
Paul Harris: Sculpture and Drawings. Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, California.
2007 – 2008
Sensibilities of Shape & Form: Douglas Denniston and Paul Harris. Eric Firestone Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona.
2008
Paul Harris: Bronzes and Drawings. Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California.
2015
Paul Harris: Some Works. Fine Arts Gallery, College of Marin, Kentfield, California.
2016
Paul Harris, Selections. Ed. Varie, Et al. etc., Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, California.
2017
Selected Works by Paul Harris. Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California.
Still Life: Paul Harris, Ed. Varie, NADA New York, Skylight Clarkson North, New York, New York.
2020
Paul Harris Art Collection. Paul Harris and Marguerite Kirk Gallery, Belgrade, Montana.
2021
Paul Harris: Selected Bronzes and Lithographs. Paul Harris and Marguerite Kirk Gallery, Belgrade, Montana.
Reaching for Flowers: Paul Harris & Tavin Davis. Paul Harris and Marguerite Kirk Gallery, Belgrade, Montana.
2022
Activating the Surface: Wax and Pigment Drawings by Paul Harris. Paul Harris and Marguerite Kirk Gallery, Belgrade, Montana.
Compositions in Bronze by Paul Harris. Paul Harris and Marguerite Kirk Gallery, Belgrade, Montana.
Selected Lithographs & Bronzes by Paul Harris Art. Medium Gallery, Bozeman, Montana.
[title unknown]. The Red Barn, Bozeman, Montana.
2023
Paul Harris: Activating the Surface. Danforth Museum of Art, Livingston, Montana.
Activating the Surface: Paul Harris. Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana.
2024
Activating the Surface: Art by Paul Harris. Carbon County Arts Guild & Depot Gallery, Red Lodge, Montana.
2025
Activating the Surface: Paul Harris. MonDak Heritage Center, Sidney, Montana.
2025 – 2026
Paul Harris: Shut-In Suite, 1969–1970. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.
Selected Group Exhibitions
1950
Six Young Artists. Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
1951
[title unknown]. University of New Mexico Art Gallery, Albuquerque.
Three Sculptors, Three Painters. Albuquerque Public Library, New Mexico.
1953
Artists in the Island. The Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1959
New Forms – New Media II. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York.
1959 – 1960
Recent Sculpture U.S.A. Traveling exhibition. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; The Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Los Angeles County Museum, California; City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
1961
Escultura 4. Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile.
1962
Arte de Chile. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
1963 – 1965
Hans Hofmann and His Students. Traveling exhibition. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; International House, Denver, Colorado; Michigan State University, East Lansing; Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio; Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington; Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama; Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Richmond Artists Association, Richmond, Virginia; Elliott Hall, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Ohio University, Athens; University of South Florida, Tampa; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; State University College, Oswego, New York; Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Goucher College, Towson, Maryland; Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
1964
Dial Y for Sculpture. Arts Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1965
Society for Contemporary Art, Annual Exhibition. Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
New Art 1965. American Express Pavilion, New York World’s Fair, New York, New York.
1966
The Work of Visiting Artists. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore.
New Art in Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
[title unknown]. Graham Gallery, New York, New York.
Tenth Annual Selection for the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art. San Francisco Museum of Art, California.
How the West Was Done. Art Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1966 – 1967
People Figures. Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsmen’s Council, New York, New York.
1967
American Sculpture of the Sixties. Traveling exhibition. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania.
Environment USA: 1957–1967. IX Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil.
1968
Prospect ’68: International Preview of the Art in the Galleries of the Avant-garde. Galerie M.E. Thelen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany.
Sculpture Invitational. University Galleries, University of Nevada, Reno.
1968 Invitational West Coast ’68 Painters & Sculptors. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California.
1968 – 1969
New American Figurative Art, 1963–1968. Traveling exhibition. Smithsonian Institute of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Serbia; Kilnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland; Palais des Beaux, Brussels, Belgium; Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria; Gallerie d’Arte Moderna, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
1969
Soft Art. New Jersey State Museum Cultural Center, Trenton, New Jersey.
1970
A Show of Hands. California College of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Oakland, California.
Ruhrfestspiele. Recklinghausen, Germany.
Art 70. Basel, Switzerland.
Kölner Kunstmarkt 70. Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany.
1971
San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition. M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California.
Made in California. Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles.
Rental Gallery 1971 Spring Exhibition. San Francisco Museum of Art, California.
1971 – 1973
Tamarind, A Renaissance of Lithography. Traveling Exhibition. International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C.
1972
Looking West. ACA Galleries, New York, New York.
1973
Sewn, Stitched and Stuffed. Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Arts Council, New York, New York.
Anatomy in Fabric. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.
Sculpture in Cloth. The Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Kleiner Foundation: Gift of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.
1974
Seven Bay Area Sculptors. The Gallery of the College of Marin, Kentfield, California.
1975
The Envelope Show. JPL Gallery, London, England.
1976
Montana Sculpture. Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana.
1976 – 1977
The Object as Poet. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1980
Sculpture by Paul Harris, David Best, Richard Moquin, Rick Hall & Drawings by Craig Hansen. Falkirk Community Cultural Center, San Rafael, California.
1982
[title unknown]. Transamerica Building Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1984
The Art of Still Life II. Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
California Bookworks: The Last Five Years. Traveling exhibition. Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California.
1985
[title unknown]. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1986
[title unknown]. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1987
Six from the San Francisco Area. Iannetti-Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Sculpture: Rick Hall, Paul Harris, Christen Van Deusen. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1988
[title unknown]. Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis.
[title unknown]. Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, California.
1989
Homage to Elaine de Kooning. 871 Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1990
Art Cologne 90. Cologne Trade Fair Centre, Cologne, Germany.
1991
Sui Generis. Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany.
1993
[title unknown]. I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, California.
[title unknown]. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1994
Die Dritte Dimension. Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany.
1995
Art Cologne 95. Cologne, Germany.
1996
Western Book Exhibition, The Rounce & Coffin Club, San Francisco and Los Angeles, California.
[title unknown]. Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
1997
Kienholz and Friends. Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany.
Art Cologne 97. Cologne, Germany.
1997 – 1998
Contemporary Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition. Margaret Woodson Fisher Sculpture Gallery, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin.
2003
Celebrating Sculpture: Posters and Original Prints by Sculptors for Appreciation of the Fine Art of Sculpture. The Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey.
2019
Pairs: Seeing Doubles. The White Chapel, Bozeman, Montana.
2021
Friends Reunited: A Show Featuring the Works of Robert DeWeese, Gennie DeWeese, and Paul Harris. Paul Harris and Marguerite Kirk Gallery, Belgrade, Montana.
2022
Activating the Surface: Response Show. Paul Harris and Marguerite Kirk Gallery, Belgrade, Montana.
Public Collections
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Bozeman Art Museum, Bozeman, Montana
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
Health Sciences Art Collection, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Holter Art Museum, Helena, Montana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Mills College Art Museum, Northeastern University, Oakland, California
Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana
Montclair State University Collection, Montclair, New Jersey
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
Awards and Fellowships
1956
The Arthur Wesley Dow Scholar, Naomi Norsworthy Fellow, Columbia University, New York, New York
1960
Longview Foundation Grant, New York
1961–62
Fulbright Professor, Universidad Catolica, Santiago, Chile
1962
Miembro Académico de la Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile
1967
Neallie Sullivan Award, San Francisco Art Institute, California
1969
Tamarind Institute of Lithography Fellow, Los Angeles, California
1977
MacDowell Colony Fellow, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1978
Lebovitz Foundation Grant
1979
Guggenheim Fellow, New York, New York
1996
Rounce and Coffin Club Award at the 55th Annual Western Book Exhibition, San Francisco and Los Angeles, California
Teaching
1950–51
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (graduate teaching assistant)
1953–55
Knox College, Jamaica, West Indies
1956–57
State University of New York, New Paltz
1958–59
New York University, New York (summer sessions)
1958–60
Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey
1961–62
Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile
1964–66
San Francisco Art Institute, California
1966–67
University of California, Berkeley
1967–68
Sacramento State University, Sacramento, California
1968–92
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
Lecturing and Visiting Artist Positions
1962
United States Information Centers, Valparaíso and Concepción, Chile
1963–86
Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore
1968
University of Oregon, Eugene
1970
Montana State University, Bozeman
1973–95
Commonwealth University of Virginia, Richmond
1974
State University of New Mexico, Las Cruces
1975
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
1977
Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
1977
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1986
University of Arizona, Tucson
Selected Publications
Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945–1980. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1985.
American Sculpture of the Sixties (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966.
Berkson, Bill. Paul Harris, Works in Bronze (exhibition catalogue). San Francisco: University of California Press and Iannetti-Lazone Gallery, 1989.
Brown, Theophilus. Paul Harris Sculpture. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
Diebenkorn, Phyllis. Paul Harris Sculpture, Certain Pieces, 1958–1980 (exhibition catalogue). Orlando, Florida: Loch Haven Art Center, 1981.
Foley, Suzanne. Paul Harris (exhibition catalogue). San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1972.
Harris, Paul and Dorothy Schmidt. Torso. San Francisco: Wrongtree Press, 1974.
Harris, Paul. Black & White: Drawings and Prints. Bolinas, California: Wrongtree Press, 2007.
Harris, Paul. Phases of the Moon. Bolinas, California: Wrongtree Press, 1995.
Harris, Paul. Paul Harris: USS Ault Drawings. Bolinas, California: Wrongtree Press, 2017.
Kahmen, Volker. Erotic Art Today. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1972.
Kelly, James J. The Sculptural Idea. Minneapolis: Burgess, 1970.
Kultermann, Udo. The New Sculpture: Environments and Assemblages. New York: Praeger, 1968.
Kunst um 1970. Aachen, Germany: Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen Der Bestand ‘72, 1972.
Kunstmarkt 70 (exhibition catalogue). Cologne, Germany: Kunsthalle, 1970.
Leon, Dennis. Paul Harris. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1975.
Neue Figuration U.S.A. (exhibition catalogue). Cologne, Germany: Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1969.
Nuova Figurazione U.S.A. (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Ripartizione Istituzione e Iniziative Culturali, 1970.
Paul Harris: Sculpture and Drawings. Jan. 21–Feb. 21, 2004. Belmont, California: Wiegand Gallery, 2004.
Pomeroy, Ralph. Soft Art (exhibition catalogue). Trenton, New Jersey: New Jersey State Museum, 1969.
Prospect ‘68 (exhibition catalogue). Düsseldorf, Germany: Kunsthalle, 1968.
Recent Sculpture U.S.A. (exhibition catalogue). New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1959.
Renwick Gallery. The Object as Poet (exhibition catalogue). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977.
São Paulo 9, Environment U.S.A. 1957–1967 (exhibition catalogue). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1967.
Tuchman, Maurice. American Sculpture of the Sixties (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966.
Yarowsky, Morris. Paul Harris Drawings. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.
Zimmerman, Sandra R. Sewn, Stitched, and Stuffed (exhibition catalogue). New York: Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Crafts Council, 1973.
