Edwin Freeland "Abie" Harris (NC, b. 1934), Untitled (Green Collage)

Acrylic and collage on canvas, 2012, signed with monogram and dated at lower left, retaining artist card to verso, gallery-wrapped canvas.

24 x 18 in.

Being sold to benefit NC Modernist, a non-profit documentation of Modernist houses across North Carolina.

Abie Harris, FAIA, is an architect, educator, and artist whose career bridges architecture, planning, and fine art. After graduating from the NC State University School of Design in 1957, he won the Paris Prize in Architecture, allowing him to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and travel extensively throughout Europe drawing historic architectural and urban landmarks. He taught at the College of Design, co founded the firm Envirotek, and for thirty two years played a central role in planning NC State University’s Main and Centennial campuses. He was named Alumni Distinguished Alumnus in 1991, retired as University Architect Emeritus in 1998, was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and received the North Carolina AIA F. Carter Williams Gold Medal in 2014. His architectural drawings are held in the D H Hill Library Special Collections.

Since retiring, Harris has devoted himself more fully to drawing and painting, exhibiting widely in museums, galleries, and academic institutions. His work has been shown at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, the Gregg Museum of Art and Design at NC State University, Buell Hall at Columbia University, and Muhlenberg College, among others. He prepared the Penland School of Crafts Master Plan in 1999 and later taught and served on its board. Harris continues to exhibit regularly from his studio and gallery, where his work reflects a lifelong engagement with structure, place, and observation.

Good estate condition, minor scuffs to the canvas.