Woman Laughing

Woman Laughing, 1965, cloth on wood chair, 41 x 36 x 36 inches

Woman Laughing, 1965, cloth on wood chair, 41 x 36 x 36 inches

Name/Title

Woman Laughing

Entry/Object ID

314

Artwork Details

Medium

Cloth on wood chair

Made/Created

Artist

Paul Harris

Date made

1965

Edition

Edition Size

1 of 1

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Previous PH Estate Inventory Number

Other Number

66.00

Dimensions

Height

41 in

Width

36 in

Depth

36 in

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Notes

CA; Gift of The Kleiner Foundation

Related Publications

Publication

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

Notes

fig. 41

Exhibitions

<i>New Art 1965</i>, American Express Pavilion, New York World’s Fair, NY, 1965
<i>Paul Harris</i>, Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY, December 20, 1966–January 14, 1967
<i>American Sculpture of the Sixties</i> [traveling exhibition], Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, April 28–June 25, 1967; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, September 25–October 29, 1967
<i>The Kleiner Foundation: Gift of Contemporary Art</i>, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, September 4–November 11, 1973

General Notes

Note Type

Remarks

Note

Chronology Excerpt: “The cloth figures with their outstretched limbs sewn into domestic seating, <i>The Convalescent</i> and <i>Woman Laughing</i>, both 1965, are shown in <i>New Art 1965</i>, a showcase of sixty painters and sculptors in the American Express Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, curated by Brian O'Doherty (1928–2002), a leading conceptualist and a visual art critic who had previously reviewed for <i>The New York Times</i>, and Wayne Anderson, a professor of history, theory and criticism of art and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”

Create Date

August 27, 2025

Update Date

September 21, 2026