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Harold Paris
Harold Paris, 1977 by Mimi Jacobs
Born(1925-08-16)August 16, 1925
Long Island, New York
DiedJuly 1, 1979(1979-07-01) (aged 53)
El Cerrito, California
NationalityAmerican
Known forPrintmaking, Sculpture
MovementAbstract Expressionism
SpouseDeborah Little Paris[1]

Harold Persico Paris (1925-1979) was an American printmaker, sculptor and educator.

Biography

Paris was born on August 16, 1925 in Long Island, New York. In World War II he served as a correspondent for the American military newspaper Stars and Stripes and during that time he witnessed the death camps at Buchenwald concentration camp which had a profound effect on him and his art.[2]

Paris studied printmaking at Atelier 17 in New York City and sculptural casting at Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich.[3] In 1953 and 1954 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[4] He was also the recipient of a Fulbright Grant and a Tiffany Foundation grant.[3]

In the early 1960s Paris settled in California.[2] In 1963 he became a professor at University of California, Berkeley. He taught printmaking and sculpture[5] and co-founded the bronze foundry there.[2] Paris was also an involved with the Peter Voulkos' pot palace ceramic studio.[6]

Paris exhibited extensively while in California. In 1972 a major exhibition of his work The California Years was held at the University Art Museum in Berkeley.[5]

Paris died in El Cerrito, California on July 1, 1979.[2]

Paris' work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,[7] the Museum of Modern Art,[8]the National Gallery of Art, [9] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[10] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[11] His papers are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Harold Paris papers, 1946-1982". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Harold Persico Paris Biography". Annex Galleries Fine Prints. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Harold Paris". AskArt. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Harold Paris". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  5. ^ a b "University of California: In Memoriam, 1980". Calisphere. The University of California. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Hal Fischer on Harold Paris". Artforum. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Harold Paris". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Harold Paris". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  9. ^ "Harold Persico Paris". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  10. ^ "Harold Paris, Patois II, 1963". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  11. ^ "Harold Paris". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
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