Charley Harper Offset Lithograph "Frog Eat Frog"
Item Details
After Charley Harper (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1922–2007)
Frog Eat Frog, Gift Rapt, 1992
Offset Lithograph on paper
Unsigned
“It’s a real jungle out there – frog eat frog. If you’re frognizant, you know that a bullfrog gobbles down anything smaller than himself that moves, including fellow frogs. No matter if it’s a neighbor, a sibling, a niece or nephew—even his own kid. GULP! Gone. So with every predatory palate in the pond and out of it eating high on the frog (everything from eggs to legs), what’s the poor polliwog’s prospect for survival? It froggles the mind.”
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 7.25″ × 7.25″.
- Item not examined outside of mounting.
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Item #
ITMGP91453
