Pat Harris

584 West Ferry Street
Buffalo, New York

Abstract Expressionist Pat Jacoby Harris chose a fine, west side Queen Anne style 1901 house to display her paintings. She sees no conflict between the old and the new.

According to Nancy Mingus, John Coxhead did the interior remodel of this building in 1903 for $3,000

Exterior Photos

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Front hall. Egg-and-dart ornamentation on newel post	Living room alcove	Living room alcove arch	Detail

Living room fireplace. Note modillions and egg-and-dart	Fireplace firebox	Typical first floor door surround	The family accidentally found this frame for pocket doors when they were were turning the apartments back into a single.

Plaster ceiling medallion	Dining room built-in cabinets	Dining room wainscot	Dining room surround

Pat Jacoby Harris in front of a recent painting of her cat	Harris family in living room	Living room	Floor covering


			Hanging in dining room

Hanging in dining room	Hanging in dining room	Hanging in dining room	"Chasm"

"Divergent"	"Earth Wind Sea Fire"	"Fantasia", Gallery III Best of Show, Goldome Bank	"Phoenix"

"Rainbow Pyramid"	"Snowshoe"	"Starlight"	"Sterling"

Pat Jacoby Harris was born in Peekskill, NY on September 15, 1940, and grew up in the Hudson Valley. Her aptitude for Art was apparent at an early age, and she pursued various forms of study in high school, continuing to expand and nurture her methods of expression with study of painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, and print making at the SUNY College of Art Education Program at Buffalo, NY.

There she discovered abstract expression and began to find a direction for the further development of her own visual language. A semester spent in Sienna, Italy, enriched her background knowledge of fresco painting, ceramics, Italian culture, and Art History. A stay in Paris included a memorable visit to the Dorthea Tanning Exhibit there.

She lived in New York City in the 1960's, where she married, and began raising a son. She continued painting and drawing always, her work taking a more individual abstract direction during this period.

In the 1970's and early 1980's, she went back to live in Buffalo, continuing to produce paintings and drawings, and actively exhibiting her work there.

-- Source: The Pat Jacoby Harris Home Page (offline)