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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Douglas Warfield Warner
Pyramid 2, 1976
Lithograph
9.25 x 9 in
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Douglas Warfield Warner
Pyramid 6, 1976
Lithograph
6 x 12 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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G. Ray Kerciu
One the Way to Lakeside, 1976
Lithograph
15 x 22.25 in
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G. Ray Kerciu
One the Way to Lakeside, 1976
Lithograph
15 x 22.5 in
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Douglas Warfield Warner
Pyramid 3, 1976
Lithograph
7.75 x 11.25 in
About the artist
Harold Boyd
1938-2002
