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                                                           The Author making coffee.

        Dr. Whitney Harris is a retired professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. Besides his teaching specialties, he took courses and studied a wide array of subjects in the sciences and humanities, including history, art history, music, and studio art. He has made many artworks including paintings in oils, acrylic, gouache, and watercolor, as well as drawings, intaglio, woodblock, linoleum, and screen prints.
        He has completed a book on rational abstract art from which he will blog adapted excerpts plus other posts. The blog posts will concentrate on explaining the artworks themselves. Many art books spend  time on the background of the artist and his or her career.   That will have reduced attention here. A good deal of abstract art, especially, minimalism, geometric art, and conceptualism can be rationally explained plus connected to wider ideas, which we will do.
        The author's mathematical training is relevant because of the desire in that field to get to the essence of things in a succinct and elegant way. He brings his studio art experience to bear also. That concern with methods is generally absent or well hidden in conventional art history books.  That is what most artists themselves want to know.
        The author is married and lives in Westchester County, a suburb just to the North of New York City. He has five grown children and eight grandchildren.
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