PAULA HARPER, PH.D.
Ralph E. Shikes) Pissaro, His Life and Work a Book-of-the-Month-Club alternate selection and the standard biography, which has been
translated into German, French and Rumanian.
She is also the author of many exhibition catalogues, magazine and journal articles (Art in America, Signs, Arts, Art Journal, etc.) on
topics in nineteenth and twentieth century art, women artists, and feminist revisions of art history.
Harper received the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in The Visual Arts at the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Rockefeller Foundation Grant for a residence at the Bellagio Study Center in the Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como in Italy. She also received the French Government Fellowship (C.R.O.U.S.) and Ford Foundation Grant for Doctoral Study.
She is a founding member of the Women's Caucus of the College Art Association, a member of the Board of trustees, Miami Art Museum of Dade County, Florida, 1989-1993. Harper was the art critic for The Miami News, 1982-1986, co-chair for Art in Public Places Committee, Miami
Beach since 1991. She is listed in Who's Who in America, 1997.
