Scholarship

Author: Leah Triplett

Interior
Interests

An abstract chair with a padded backrest and seat covered in patterned fabric, supported by four thin, angled legs.

“Becoming an artist is a serious undertaking rather like preparing for a trek across Antarctica,” wrote Paul Harris (1925–2018) in 2008 to a young cousin considering the life path…

Art installation in a gallery featuring abstract sculptures of human figures and furniture with floral patterns, illuminated by ceiling lights.
An artistic sculpture of a woman in a pink dress holding a bouquet of pink flowers. The woman appears to be leaning forward with her head down, creating a dynamic pose. The dress has floral patterns, and the sculpture's material looks like fabric and other mixed media.

Author: Jessica Holmes

Novel Experimentation,
Conceptual Freedom

A sculpture of a person with no upper body, showing only their legs and a skirt, hanging upside down from the ceiling.
Sculpture of a woman made from crumpled newspaper pages, positioned with arms crossed and head bowed.

By refusing to limit himself, Paul Harris (1925–2018) amassed a body of work rare in its physical heterogeneity across the whole of his career...

Uncanny, or Erotic:
Paul Harris Bronzes

Black sculpture resembling a human torso with exaggerated shoulders and rounded features, displayed on a white surface.

Author: Jessica Holmes

In his interdisciplinary practice, there seemed to be no material too formidable for Paul Harris (1925–2018) to surmount…

Black and white photograph of a wooden sculpture depicting a stylized human figure in a crouching or leaning pose.

Author: Sarah Hotchkiss

A pencil sketch of a young man with short hair, wearing a rolled-up sleeves shirt, sitting with his arms crossed on a surface.

An Infinity
of Forms

Pastel drawing of a banana split with two bananas, surrounded by banana peels on a yellow surface with a gray background.

It strikes me as particularly poetic that Paul Harris served his time in the Navy aboard the USS Ault, a destroyer painted in dazzle camouflage…

Children's drawing of a colorful table with vertical stripes in red, orange, gray, yellow, blue, brown, green, and pink, with a large blue and white geometric object on top.