Portland Art Museum

A week from today! On Free First Thursday (June 4) join curators Mary Weaver Chapin, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings who welcomes Leah Triplett, Curator of Contemporary Art at PAFA The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, for a special wide-ranging talk on Paul Harris on occasion of the artist’s centennial and the exhibition “Paul Harris: Shut-In Suite, 1969–1970,” on view through June 7.

Learn about the postmodern sculptor’s suite of lithographs, a new addition to the museum’s collection, which Harris made during a fellowship at Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles. “A shut-in’s intimate reflections on his environment,” the “crisp images appear as still lifes seen through a zoom lens.”

“In ‘The Girl on the Beach,’ the memory of the shut-in catches an intimate rainbow-colored sky and part of a parasol. In some of the images single objects are focused upon, taking on an iconic character.”

🗓️ Art and Conversation: Paul Harris and Printmaking
Thu, June 4, 10:30 a.m. (doors open); 11 a.m. (program begins)
1119 SW Park Ave

Reserve your ticket → https://bit.ly/4vjcJQC

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“The Girl on the Beach,” from the “Shut-In Suite,” 1969, lithograph on Copperplate Deluxe paper, 30 7/8 × 22 3/4 inches. A Gift from Marguerite Kirk Harris from her collection of Paul Harris Art, © Paul Harris / Marguerite Kirk Harris Survivor's Trust, 2023.27.1b

Quote from an artist’s fellowship page, “Paul Harris, Tamarind Fellowship Artist: November 1969–January 1970,” Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Poindexter Gallery records, 1966–1974, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution