Scholarship / Paul Harris Estate

Scholarship

Author: Leah Triplett

Interior
Interests

A person sitting in a modern lounge chair with a colorful patterned cushion, facing sideways with one hand resting on their head.

“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 with mannequins on a platform, surrounded by furniture displays in a gallery.

Fashion model with a floral patterned dress and fluffy pink headpiece, posing against a plain background.

Author: Jessica Holmes

Novel Experimentation,
Conceptual Freedom

A pair of legs with feet wearing high heels, hanging upside down from the ceiling with a black dress over the legs, creating an optical illusion.

A large sculpture of a bear made out of textured material, possibly stone or concrete.

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 of a stylized mouse head with large ears and minimal facial features.

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 photo of abstract sculpture with curved and cylindrical shapes.

Author: Sarah Hotchkiss

A pencil sketch of a man sitting with his arms crossed on his lap, wearing a collared shirt with rolled-up sleeves.

An Infinity
of Forms

Still life painting of yellow bananas with brown stems on a yellow surface.

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…

Abstract artwork featuring a multicolored striped foreground and a blue and white patterned upper section.