A master of line and psychological nuance, Boyd’s figures are engaged in dialogue, dance, and acts of physical endurance—all poignant yet comic commentaries on the human condition. Adlai Stevenson, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Carlos Williams, Gandhi, and other cultural heroes populate Boyd's fluid landscape. Since the mid-80s his work has consistently featured non-idealized aging male figures. Biographically or autobiographically inspired (his father, himself, Adlai Stevenson), yet fictional in result, these figures “all share an awakening clumsiness, as if surprised by gravity, as if remembering a weightless childhood, the childhood of a soap-bubble. But in the gallery, this all changes. There is closure everywhere, and with it grace and a surprisingly idea sort of beauty.” (Tim Porges, Harold Boyd, Old Body: Beginner's Mind, 1999)
Additional Artworks
From John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art
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Richard Guy Walton
Malalo Ka Kai (Under the Sea), 1976
Oil
52.5 x 36.625 x 1.625 in
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Warrington Colescott
History of Printmaking: Ben Franklin at Versailles, 1976
Etching
19.6875 x 13.6875 in
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Warrington Colescott
History of Printmaking: Senefelder Receives the Secrets of Lithography, 1976
Etching
19.75 x 13.625 in
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James Weaver
Homage to Rothko, 1976
Mixed Media
18.5 x 18.375 in
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Howard Hack
Match Book, 1976
Lithograph
19 x 27 in
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Richard Florsheim
Off Shore Rig, 1976
Lithograph
19.25 x 16 in
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John Talleur
li-Alin-Ya, 1976
Etching
8.125 x 6.25 in
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Harold Boyd
Lighter Than Air, 1976
Lithograph
11 x 18 in
About the artist
Harold Boyd
1938-2002
