Paul Harris, born 1925, began making plaster sculpture of the human form in New Mexico in the late 1940's. Throughout the fifties his sculpture remained largely experimental. Utilizing plaster, papier-mâché and string, Harris created raw, ephemeral and thought-provoking works, which would receive critical praise throughout the decade at New York’s Poindexter Gallery.
The masks, figures and environments from the period were intended to convey psychological emotions as they unv (showing 500 of 2070 characters). |
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