Woman Bending Over

Sculpture

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Paul Harris Estate

Woman Bending Over, 1978, bronze and paint, 41 x 29 x 16 inches

Woman Bending Over, 1978, bronze and paint, 41 x 29 x 16 inches

Name/Title

Woman Bending Over

Entry/Object ID

440

Artwork Details

Medium

Bronze and paint

Made/Created

Artist

Paul Harris

Date made

1978

Notes

Chuck Manning, Missoula MT

Edition

Edition Size

1 of 1

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Previous PH Estate Inventory Number

Other Number

122.00

Dimensions

Height

41 in

Width

29 in

Depth

16 in

Relationships

Related Publications

Publication

Brown, Theophilus. <i>Paul Harris Sculpture</i>. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.

Notes

fig. 101

Exhibitions

<i>Paul Harris: Works in Bronze</i> [traveling exhibition], Iannetti-Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, CA, April 13–May 20, 1989; C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, September 6–30, 1989; Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany, February 14–March 10, 1990
<i>Sensibilities of Shape & Form: Douglass Denniston & Paul Harris</i>, Eric Firestone Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, December 13, 2007–January 31, 2008
<i>Paul Harris, Selections</i>, Et al. etc., San Francisco, CA, October 1–29, 2016

General Notes

Note Type

In-House Note

Note

In the original spreadsheet, the medium field read "125–125.01". This does not match the PH Estate Number, and its function is unclear.

Note Type

Remarks

Note

This work was cast by Chuck Manning in Missoula, Montana. “In <i>Woman Bending Over</i> (1978), Harris has crafted the bronze so that the eponymous woman bends at the waist at a steep angle, her buttocks thrust into the air. Her head and torso are in disproportion to her long legs, which end in oversized feet that help counter instability. The work is frankly, playfully sexual in subject but simultaneously exhibits a more subtle physicality in its fluid curves and soft lines.” —Jessica Holmes, “Uncanny or Erotic: Paul Harris Bronzes,” 2026. Chronology Excerpt: “<i>Paul Harris: Works in Bronze</i> opens at the Iannetti-Lanzone Gallery on April 13, 1989 and is on view until May 20. The show travels to the Constantine Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore where it is shown from September 6 to September 30, 1989, and to the Galerie Redmann in Berlin on view from February 14 to March 10, 1990. The survey includes examples in bronze made by Harris in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including: <i>Anna in Love</i> (1987), <i>Anna Turning</i> (1989), and <i>Woman Bending Over</i> (1978). In the accompanying exhibition catalogue, critic, and poet Bill Berkson writes that, ‘Gravity in Paul Harris’s sculptures is primary and emphatic in ways that nothing else about them is. How the object sits, lays, stands, or leans—the general position that orients you to it as a three-dimensional image in the space of a room—makes the first impression. Once oriented, you notice a conundrum: the weighty, tactile presence thus deposited has a resonance and scale not there to be grasped at all, an elusiveness suspended among the familiar shapes borne to view.’”

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Create Date

August 31, 2025

Updated By

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Update Date

October 16, 2026