Harry Bouras was an internationally noted artist, critic and teacher and host of a weekly Chicago radio program on art criticism. 

Among Mr. Bouras’ early art were scrap steel sculptures or heavy collages-some of them weighing as much as a ton-which became the sturdy foundation of his reputation as an artist. ''Core,'' shown in 1961 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is a heavy collage made from two steel drums he found at the Marina City construction site.

Mr. Bouras’ sculpture is included in collections in Chicago, New York, Detroit and Aspen, Colo., as well as Tokyo and New Delhi. As a painter, he exhibited in numerous one-man shows in the United States and abroad. His work is in permanent collections at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art and in Rochester, N.Y., and Tokyo.

When auctioned in 1966, Mr. Bouras’ collection of more than 100 pieces of art were billed as Chicago’s first presentation of ''unconscious art.''

Mr. Bouras earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Illinois and also did postgraduate study at the University of Chicago. He was an artist-in-residence at the University of Chicago from 1962 to 1964 and at Northwestern University from 1965 to 1967. Mr. Bouras taught at Columbia College since 1964 until his death.

He received the School of the Art Institute`s Pauline Palmer Award in 1962 and its Logan Gold Medal for Sculpture in 1964. Mr. Bouras was a Hokin Foundation grant recipient in 1969 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971-72.

He was a frequent lecturer at colleges and universities across the country and published numerous articles on art literature. Mr. Bouras formerly was a guest critic for the Chicago Tribune.

Born in Rochester, Mr. Bouras began painting at an early age-a craft he continued to practice until the end of his life.