William Harper

William Harper is 'an innovator in iconography, technique and use of materials.' Harper's work has earned him a position in a class of his own, and his art has influenced a generation of enamelists. His work combines religious imagery from cultures around the world with a remarkable aesthetic sensibility, resulting in pieces that are 'humorous, seductive, repulsive and challenging.' (Thomas A. Manhart)

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Selected Public Collections

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
The J. Patrick Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, Florida
The Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Minnesota Museum, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Min Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Pforzheim, West Germany
Texas Technology University Museum, Lubbock, Texas
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
The Vatican Museum, Vatican City, Italy
Walker Hill Art Center Museum, Soeul, Korea
Wichita Art Assosiation, Wichita, Kansas
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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