Harold Boyd drawing on a stone with tusche water wash.
 Harold Boyd

Lives and works in Bloomington, Illinois 

Education:
1965  MFA, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 
1960  Attended, Ohio State University, Columbus 
1959  BFA University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 

Emeritus Professor of Art, School of Art, 
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 

Awards:
National Endowment for the Arts (N.E.A.) 

prints by Harold Boyd
 

Links to recent exhibitions by Harold Boyd:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University Galleries, Illinois State University

Artist's Statement:
        The impetus for this print (Mother and Child) came from witnessing a mini-drama of the interaction of a mother and her small child at the opening of an art exhibition.  There was no conflict between the two, but the situation was dichotomous; the love-bond was evident, but so was the tremendous work and exhaustion of corralling the natural acrobatics of the child's behavior.  Both mother and child were tired, but additionally, the mother was pregnant.  She was frazzled.  It is a scene ubiquitous and universal and in my experience rarely commemorated.  I celebrate them both, but especially the mother.
        The ghost-like green girl behind the main image can be seen either as the memory of the mother's own adolescence, of the foretelling of the child's eventual maturing while remaining still exuberant.
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