Charley Harper Offset Lithograph "Birdwatcher"

Item Details

After Charley Harper (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1922–2007)
Birdwatcher
Offset Lithograph on paper
Unsigned

’There are cat people and there are bird people. Then there are the cat-bird people, who know that their favorite feline is the ultimate birdwatcher. Who needs binoculars? This bird lover gets close enough to count the feathers without snapping a dry twig, and she knows the best place to fatter her life list—under the bird feeder! Her eye is on the sparrow, which is, for her, just as fulfilling as having it on the condor. But the sparrow will be saved by the bell—this cat is a cat-bird people’s cat.”

Charley Harper was an American Modernist artist and illustrator based in Cincinnati, Ohio. After graduating from the Academy of Art in Cincinnati and receiving the school’s first Stephen H. Wilder Travelling Scholarship, Harper gained a reputation as a successful wildlife illustrator, tapped for nature themed projects such as the Golden Book of Biology, the magazine Ford Times, and the National Parks Service. Harper developed a distinct personal style he described as “Minimal Realism”, capturing the forms of his subjects with the fewest possible visual details, often distilling them down to flat geometric shapes and stylized lines. Charley Harper’s work has been shown at the Kunstverein Hamburg in Germany, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Altman Seigel Gallery in San Francisco, the Trifecta Gallery in Las Vegas, and the Public Trust in Dallas, TX, among other places.

Condition

- light debris from storage.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 6.5″ × 8.25″.

• Item not examined outside of mounting.

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Item #

ITMGP91456