Charley Harper Offset Lithograph "Big Rac Attack"
Item Details
After Charley Harper (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1922–2007)
Big Rac Attack, 1988
Offset Lithograph on paper
Unsigned
“Better be on the lookout when you cook out. Let that burger aroma roam around the neighborhood and you’re inviting a Big Rac Attack. And can you blame them? Raccoons eat out all the time and—well, wouldn’t you welcome a nice home-cooked meal now and then? But did you buy enough burger to feed this raccpack? What happens when you’re down to the last patty? Serve the dog food. The cat food. Table scraps. Then let nature take its course—survival of the fattest.’
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 8.75″ × 5″.
- Item not examined outside of mounting.
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Item #
ITMGP91435
