Woman with Puffed Sleeves, 1992, bronze, 18 x 32 x 14 inches
Name/Title
Woman with Puffed Sleeves
Entry/Object ID
620
Artwork Details
Medium
Bronze
Made/Created
Artist
Paul Harris
Date made
1992
Notes
Casting information: Shidoni Art Foundry, NM
Edition
Edition Size
2
Other Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Previous PH Estate Inventory Number
Other Number
179.00
Dimensions
Height
18 in
Width
32 in
Depth
14 in
Relationships
Related Publications
Publication
Brown, Theophilus. <i>Paul Harris Sculpture</i>. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
Notes
fig. 105, dimensions differ slightly
Exhibition
<i>Paul Harris: Bronzes and Drawings</i>, Fresno Art Museum, CA, June 10–August 17, 2008
General Notes
Note Type
Remarks
Note
This work was cast at the Shidoni Art Foundry and Gallery, Tesuque, New Mexico.
“These two works [<i>Anna in Love</i> (1987) and <i>Anna Turning</i> (1989) were both cast at the acclaimed Shidoni Foundry in Tesuque, New Mexico, as was another treatment of the female body he made a few years later, <i>Woman With Puffed Sleeves</i> (1992), which saw Harris once again pivot towards humor. Here, a pair of female breasts is minimized by a pair of outsized shoulders, presumably enhanced by the puffed sleeves of the title. That Harris chose to focus on the upper arms—typically a body part with far less sexual connotation than the breasts—he mischievously subverts preconceived notions of the erotic.”
—Jessica Holmes, “Uncanny or Erotic: Paul Harris Bronzes,” 2026.
