Audio Recordings

The Paul Rogers Harris Papers contain records on a wide variety of projects, from his graduate work at New York University and with Claes Oldenburg to his work as an independent curator in a number of capacities: curator, consignment dealer and estate executor. Materials date between 1959 and 2001. Types of materials include correspondence, notes, research material, ephemera, exhibition information for the gallery Modern Dallas Art, exhibition records, artist slides, consignment sales records, publications, and estate dispersal records. The materials have been arranged in seven series: Series 1. Claes Oldenburg; Series 2. Gateway Gallery (DMA); Series 3. Modern Dallas Art; Series 4. Independent Curator; Series 5: Dallas Love Field Parking Garage Expansion Public Art Project Selection Committee; Series 6. Dallas Art Publications; Series 7. Audio Recordings. Additional information on the contents of each series can be found in the Series Descriptions section.

Accruals added materials from Paul's tensures as director of The Art Center, Waco and The Craft Guild of Dallas; artist files which include numerous photographers and craft artists; and personal scrapbooks and common books.