{{short description|American artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = Harold Paris | image = Photo of Harold Paris.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Harold Paris, 1977 by Mimi Jacobs | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1925|8|16|mf=y}} | birth_place = Edgemere, Long Island, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1979|7|1|1925|8|16|mf=y}} | death_place = El Cerrito, California, U.S. | education = Academy of Fine Arts, Munich,<br/> Atelier 17 | field = Printmaking, sculpture | movement = Abstract Expressionism | spouse = Deborah Little Paris<ref name="Archives of American Art">{{cite web |title=Harold Paris papers, 1946-1982 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/harold-paris-papers-7200 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |accessdate=29 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> }}
'''Harold Persico Paris''' (1925–1979) was an American printmaker, sculptor and educator. He taught art classes at the University of California, Berkeley from 1963 until 1979.
==Early life and education== Paris was born on August 16, 1925, in Edgemere, Long Island, New York.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-09-21|title=Harold Persico Paris|url=https://art.famsf.org/harold-persico-paris|access-date=2022-02-02|website=FAMSF Search the Collections|language=en}}</ref> In World War II he served as a correspondent for the American military newspaper Stars and Stripes and during that time he witnessed the death camps at Buchenwald concentration camp which had a profound effect on him and his art.<ref name="Annex Galleries">{{cite web |title=Harold Persico Paris Biography |url=https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/1820/Paris/Harold |website=Annex Galleries Fine Prints |accessdate=29 April 2020}}</ref> Paris studied printmaking at Atelier 17 in New York City and sculptural casting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (German: Akademie der Bildenden Künste) in Munich.<ref name="AskArt">{{cite web |title=Harold Paris |url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Harold_Persico_Paris/25793/Harold_Persico_Paris.aspx |website=AskArt |accessdate=29 April 2020}}</ref> In 1953 and 1954 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.<ref name="Guggenheim">{{cite web |title=Harold Paris |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/harold-paris/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation |accessdate=29 April 2020}}</ref> He was also the recipient of a Fulbright Grant and a Tiffany Foundation grant.<ref name="AskArt" />
== Career and late life == In the early 1960s Paris settled in California.<ref name="Annex Galleries"/> In 1963 he became a professor at University of California, Berkeley. He taught printmaking and sculpture<ref name="Calisphere">{{cite web |title=University of California: In Memoriam, 1980 |url=http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb1j49n6pv;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00071&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=calisphere |website=Calisphere |publisher=The University of California |accessdate=29 April 2020}}</ref> and co-founded the bronze foundry there.<ref name="Annex Galleries"/> One of Paris' students was Shirin Neshat.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cohen|first=Alina|date=2019-03-01|title=Shirin Neshat on Her Path from Art School Outcast to Contemporary Art Icon|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-shirin-neshat-path-art-school-outcast-contemporary-art-icon|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Artsy|language=en}}</ref> Paris was also an involved with the Peter Voulkos' ''pot palace'' ceramic studio.<ref name="Artforum">{{cite web |title=Hal Fischer on Harold Paris |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/197805/harold-paris-68391 |website=Artforum |accessdate=29 April 2020}}</ref>
Paris exhibited extensively while in California. In 1972 a major exhibition of his work ''The California Years'' was held at the University Art Museum in Berkeley.<ref name="Calisphere"/>
Paris died in El Cerrito, California, on July 1, 1979.<ref name="Annex Galleries"/>
==Collections== Paris' work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,<ref name="aic">{{cite web |title=Harold Paris |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/36131/harold-paris |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |accessdate=29 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> the Museum of Modern Art,<ref name="MoMA">{{cite web |title=Harold Paris |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/4498 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |accessdate=29 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> the National Gallery of Art,<ref name="nga">{{cite web |title=Harold Persico Paris |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5160.html |website=National Gallery of Art |accessdate=29 April 2020}}</ref> the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,<ref name="sfmoma">{{cite web |title=Harold Paris, Patois II, 1963 |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/64.33/|website=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |accessdate=29 April 2020}}</ref> and the Whitney Museum of American Art.<ref name="Whitney">{{cite web |title=Harold Paris |url=https://whitney.org/artists/990 |website=Whitney Museum of American Art |accessdate=29 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> His papers are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.<ref name="Archives of American Art"/>
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==External links== *[https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Harold-Paris/BE8F9FEB39D4C188 images of Paris' work] on MutualArt *[https://www.invaluable.com/artist/paris-harold-persico-qesubt88fr/sold-at-auction-prices/ images of Paris' work] on Invaluable
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