Charley Harper Offset Lithograph "Wedding Feast"

Item Details

After Charley Harper (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1922–2007)
Wedding Feast, 1973
Offset Lithograph on paper
Unsigned

“‘A rose is a rose is a rose, but Ms. Praying Mantis is the ultimate feminist. Don’t romanticize her mating. This predatory female is a potential connubial cannibal. Many a mate has learned too late that her intent is not wholly matrimony, and that the way to her heart is through her stomach. Their affair is brief –infatuation, consummation, mastication- and the ceremony is simple, but tasteful – to have and to hold ‘till death do us part. A burp is a burp is a burp.”

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″ × 7″.

• Item not examined outside of mounting.

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Item #

ITMGP91459