Paul Harris 100 Years

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CCA/C Archives

  • Paul Harris 100 Dossier
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Creator(s)
Katharine James (Creator)
Harris, Paul (1925-2018) - Artist Faculty - 1968-1992
Triplett, Leah (Author)
Date(s)
Date created: 2025
Work type & Measurements
Press release
27 pages.
Description
Paul Harris was a CCAC faculty member from 1968 to 1992. 2025 marks the centenary of Paul Harris (1925–2018), a vanguard, multidisciplinary artist appreciated in his lifetime for his vibrant, floral patterned fabric and cloth sculptures, as well as bronzes and work on paper, and close, lifelong friendships with Phyllis and Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) as well as artist and writer Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) after meeting her at Hans Hofmann’s summer school in Provincetown in 1949. Quintessentially postmodern, Harris championed the new and nascent in contemporary American art across his paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures that were included in some of the most significant shows of the cacophonous 1960s and 1970s, while blurring the lines between Pop Art and French Modernism and working at the apex of the avant-garde vis-à-vis alternative materials and situating him alongside artists such as Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022), John Chamberlain (1927–2011), Andy Warhol (1928–1987), Eve Hesse (1936–1970), and Bruce Conner (1933–2008).
Table of Contents
Quotes / Introduction / Resources / Artist Biography for Instagram / Condensed Artist Biography for wall labels, press releases, editorial / Artist Biography Written by Leah Triplett / Selection of Historical Articles / Paul Harris: Interior Interests Written by Leah Triplett / Endnotes.
Subject(s)
Time period: 1960-1969
Time period: 1970-1979
Time period: 1980-1989
Time period: 1990-1999
Topic: sculpture (visual works)
Topic: textiles (visual works)
Topic: multidisciplinary artists
Name: Harris, Paul, 1925-

CCA/C subject: Work by faculty
Archives Series & Subseries
Series: VII. Press
Subseries: 2. Press Releases
Location
Born Digital
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