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Paula Harper

Paula Hays Harper was an American art historian, credited as "one of the first art historians to bring a feminist perspective to the study of painting and sculpture". She co-authored a biography on the French impressionist Camille Pissarro and was a well-known contemporary art critic.

Life and work
Paula Fish was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, an only child, and raised in Philadelphia. In her 20s she moved to New York City, where she was a dancer with the modern dance company Munt–Brooks Dance Studios (later known as "The Changing Scene"). Harper is credited with conceiving Womanhouse, a 1972 art installation and "one of the biggest and most celebrated exhibitions of art by and about women ever assembled". She helped shape the Miami art scene and was a regular contributor and art critic in Art in America magazine and The Miami News. == Publications ==
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