PAULA HARPER
Department of Art and Art History
105 Art Building
University of Miami Phone: (305) 284-2542
EDUCATION
1976 Ph.D Stanford University (Art History)
1968-69 Post M.A. study -- University of New Mexico (History of Photography)
1968 M.A. Hunter College (Art History)
1966 B.A. Hunter College (Art and Art History)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Miami: June 1983 - present; Associate Professor.
University of Miami: January 1982 - May, 1983; Assistant Prof.
Mills College: 1980-81, Visiting Assistant Professor
Stanford University: 1979-80, Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills College: Spring 1979, Visiting Assistant Professor
California Institute of the Arts, 1971-72, Assistant Professor
University of New Mexico: 1968-69, Teaching Fellow
HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
1997 - Listed in Who's Who in America.
1991 - Rockefeller Foundation Residency, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy.
1990-91 - Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1990 -- Max Orovitz Summer Award in the Arts and Humanities, University of Miami
1990 - University Research Council Grant, University of Miami.
1973-74 French Government Research Grant (C.R.O.U.S.)
1969-73 Ford Foundation Grant -- Stanford University Doctoral Program.
1968-69 Teaching Fellowship, University of New Mexico
1967-68 and 1968-69 New York State Regents' Fellowships for Doctoral Study (declined).
1966-67 Tuition Fellowship for the M.A. at Hunter College.
GALLERY EXPERIENCE
Director of the Hunter Art Gallery, Hunter College, City University of New York, 1977-78.
Assistant to the Director, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 1976.
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
"Daumier Lithographs and Sculpture from the Benjamin Trustman Collection", Bass Museum, Miami Beach, December, 1996-Jan.,1997.
"New Age Art", North Miami Museum, April-May, 1987. (art in non-traditional media of laser, holography, video, computer, light, electronic sound.)
"Daumier's Lithographs", Stanford Art Gallery, Octobe-November, 1972. (with Lorenz Eitner and Betsy Fryberger)
"War, Revolution and Peace: Posters from the Hoover Institution Archives", Stanford University Museum, May-June, 1971.
"Against the Madness: Art from California Campuses", Dumbarton Hall, Washington, D.C., June-July, 1970.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Pissarro. His Life and Work (with Ralph E. Shikes), Horizon Press, New York, 1980. (A Book-of-the-Month Club Dividend.)
Pissarro, (French edition), Flammarion, Paris, 1980.
Pissarro. Der Vater Des Impressionismus, (German edition), Atheneum Verlag, Berlin, 1981.
Pissarro (Rumanian edition), Editura Meridiane, Bucharest, 1987.
Daumier's Clowns: Les Saltimbanques et les parades. New Political and Biographical Functions for a Nineteenth Century Myth, Garland Publishing Company, New York and London, 1981.
CATALOGUES:
Honoré Daumier: Prints and Sculpture, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, December, 1996-January 1997.
Norman Liebman: New Paintings, Galerie Collègiale, Orleans, France, June, 1997.
Jens Diercks: Function Destruction, Galerie Troisième Etage, Berlin, Germany, June, 1997.
Elena Presser's Passion: Drawings, Wall Reliefs and Sculptures based on the music of Bach, University of Wyoming Art Museum, March, April, 1994.
Handbook of the Permanent Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, Catalogue entrys for Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and Duane Hansen.
Visions from Brazil: The Drawings of Paolo Gomes Garcez, Museum, University of Miami, April 17-May 23, 1993.
Purvis Young, Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, 1993.
Tom Downs and Rebecca Howland: Painting, Drawings, Video, Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Dade County Community College, Miami, 1992.
Contemporary Sculpture from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Coconut Grove, Florida, 1986.
Powerplay, ACA Gallery, New York, Paintings by Judy Chicago, October 1986.
The Sculpture of George Segal, Lowe Art Museum, March-April, 1983.
War, Revolution and Peace: Propaganda Posters from the Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University Art Museum, 1971
ARTICLES:
"Visceral Geometry: the work of Mona Hatoum", Art in America, September, 1998.
"Wolfsonian Redux", Art in America, January 1997.
"Cuba Connections: Key West--Tampa--Miami, 1870-1945", Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Art, Special Cuba Issue, October, 1996.
"Robert Thiele: New Work at Fredric Snitzer", Art in America, June, 1996.
"The New Curiosity Shop", Art in America, January, 1996.
"Zuka at La Maison Francaise", Art in America, February, 1994.
"Lozano Deconstructed", Miami New Times, June 30-July 6, 1993.
"Jill Cannady", Sculpture Magazine, March-April, 1993
"Honoré Daumier's Process: Merging Pop and Avant-Garde", in Center 11, National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington, D.C., 1991.
Signed critical articles on Camille Pissarro and Honoré Daumier in The International Dictionary of Art and Artists, Vol II, St. James Press, London and Chicago, 1990.
"Power Skyline", Art in America, September, 1988, pp.55-65.
"Feminist Art Program: A View from the 1980's", Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol.10, No.4, Summer, 1985, pp. 762-781.
"The Ceramic Sculpture of Ron Fondaw", American Ceramics, The Ceramic Art Quarterly, Vol. 2, No.4, 1984.
"George Sugarman:The Fullness of Time," Arts Magazine, Sept.,1988.
"Votes for Women: A Graphic Episode in the Battle of the Sexes"; included in the anthology Art and Architecture in the Service of Politics, M.I.T. Press, 1978.
"Paula Cooper, Soho Pioneer," in Soho: Downtown Manhattan, Berlin, Academie der Kunste, 1976.
"Suffrage Posters", Spare Rib, November, 1975 (London).
"California Art for Peace: May,1970", Art Journal, Winter, 1970-71.
1982-1987 -- A series of reviews and feature articles, averaging three per month, written as Art Critic for The Miami News (the daily, afternoon newspaper published by Cox and distributed in Dade and Broward Counties.)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (Selected)
Organizer (with Helen Kohen) of the 4th Annual Southeastern AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Meeting in Miami, sponsored by the Lowe Art Museum, March 21-23, 1997.
Wolfsonian Fellowship Committee, 1995. Reviewed applications for Wolsonian Research Center Fellows for 1996.
Public Television: On-screen participant and script consultant for a five part television series on "Camille Pissarro: His Life and Work", produced by WTJX Channel 12 in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (Pissarro's birthplace), 1993-94.
CAA (College Art Association), 1991. Chair of the Charles Rufus Morey Award Committee to select the most distinguished book in the history of art published in the previous year.
SECAC (Southeastern College Art Conference), October 28, 1988, Chair of a session entitled "Floridiana: Sources of Cultural Diversity", including art historians, architects, and curators.
CAA (College Art Association), New York City, February, 1982; delivered a paper on "The Women of the Impressionist Movement: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Marie Bracquemond."
President of the New York Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA) of the College Art Association, 1977-78.
Member of the National Advisory Board of the WCA, 1977-80.
Organized and chaired the first session at a CAA conference in the area of women's studies in art history: "Women in Art and Art History - Past, Present and Future.", New York, 1973.
Founding Member of the Women's Caucus of the CAA, 1972.
PUBLIC LECTURES (Selected)
Boca Raton Museum of Art, February 6, 1999, "Renoir and Impressionism: Friendships and Feuds."
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, May 23, 1998, "Picasso's Private Diary: The Vollard Suite".
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, January 12, 1997, "Honoré Daumier: Funny and Fundamental".
Lowe Art Museum, Miami, March 23 and March 30, 1995, "Women Artists in the United States, 1970-1995".
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, March/April, 1994, Four public lectures in conjunction with the exhibition "Edgar Degas: The Many Dimensions of a Master French Impressionist".
National Gallery, Washington, D.C., Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, , January 15, 1991, "Daumier's Process: MergingPop and Avant Garde".
Rockefeller Foundation, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, April 24, 1991, "Daumier's Pivotal Position in Art History."
Stanford University, May 20, 1989, "Daumier's Process: Merging Pop and Avant-Garde."
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, December 16, 1987, "The Tradition of Competition in the French Academy".
International Association of Art Critics, Annual meeting, New York, March 10, 1987, "New Money and New Architecture in Miami."
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, February, 1986, "The Women of Impressionism -- The Eden of Idleness."
Florida International University, September 1985; "The Women of Impressionism."
Norton Gallery of Art, Palm Beach, April 1984; "Paris in Daumier's Time -- Artists, Critics and Connoisseurs."
Metropolitan Museum, Miami, June, 1983; "Pissarro, Cezanne and Gauguin."
San Jose (California) State University, June, 1982; "The Women Impressionist Painters: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Marie Bracquemond."
University Museum, U.C. Berkeley, October, 1981; "American Pop Art: a Social Phenomenon."
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Spring, 1980; "Cassatt, Degas and Pissarro: a Printmaking Cooperative."
Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco), January, 1980; "Impressionist Paintings in the Collection of the Museum."
Smithsonian Institution, November, 1979. "Daumier's Clowns: the Private Voice of a Public Artist."
University of Iowa, Spring, 1979; "Pissarro, the Impressionist Printmaker."
University of Iowa, Spring, 1978; "Posters of the Women's Suffrage Movement."
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Spring, 1977; "Daumier's Watercolors."
St. Martin's College, London, November, 1974; "Daumier and Baudelaire."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February, 1974; "Posters of Women: a Study in Ambivalence."
University of Southern California, Spring, 1972; "Women Artists and Women's Art."
Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Spring, 1971; "War, Revolution and Peace: the Poster as a Propaganda Weapon."
SYMPOSIA AND PANELS -- invited participant:
Lowe Art Museum, April, 1998, "On the Edge. Contemporary Trends in Latin American Art." - Moderator
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, January 1995, "Art Criticism: Beauty, Geography and Political Correctness."
Lowe Art Museum, January, 1995, "De-Mystifying Latin American Art: A Round Table of Ideas".
Stanford University, May, 1989, "The Art of Caricature", sponsored by the Department of Art, the Stanford Museum, and the School of Humanities and Sciences.
Rollins College, February, 1986. "American Impressionism," an interdisciplinary symposium, funded by the NEH, focussing on American culture in the Impressionist period.
Centre George Pompidou, Paris, September, 1985. An international symposium linked with Christo's "Wrapped Pont Neuf", on the topic of "Art Engagé in the 80's."
Stanford University, Spring, 1983. An interdisciplinary symposium on the topic "Communities of Women." (Proceedings published in Signs, Summer, 1985).
Smithsonian Institution, Washington November, 1979. "The paintings, drawings, sculpture and caricature of Honoré Daumier."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Art and Archaeology: 1974. A symposium on "Art and Architecture in the Service of Politics."
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Women's Studies Faculty
Member of the Graduate Faculty, 1983 -- present.
Founding Faculty Fellow of the Honors College, 1984.
Coordinator of the Master's Program in Art History -- 1983-84; 1988--1995.
Committee memberships:
NEH Summer Stipends and Orovitz Awards, 1996-97.
University Instructional Advancement Center Committee on Instructional Grants, 1996-97.
Art Department Committee on Graduate Programs, 1992-
Art Department Curriculum Committee, 1987-91
University Task Force on Curriculum, 1985-87
Faculty Evaluation Committee, 1984
Affirmative Action Committee 1982-83
NEH Summer Stipends and Orovitz Awards, 1983-85
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Art in Public Places Committee, Miami Beach: 1991-1998
Selection Panel, Art on Lincoln Road, 1995-
Board of Trustees, Center for the Fine Arts, Dade County Cultural Center, Miami: 1989-1993
Board of Directors, La Bête, 1990-1993
Board of Directors: Freddick Bratcher Dance Company, 1984-89.
Board of Advisors: Mary Luft and Company/Tigertail Productions. 1987-90.
