"Tall Tail" Charley Harper Limited Edition Serigraph

Item Details

A graphic limited edition serigraph print titled Tall Tail by highly regarded Cincinnati wildlife artist Charley Harper (1922-2007). Released in 1974, this vertical image depicts a roadrunner with the tail of a lizard hanging from its mouth, with a prickly cactus in the background. Edition number 841 of 2000, numbered and signed by Harper in pencil to the lower margin. Presented behind white mat, under glass, in a beveled wood frame with a gilt and black painted finish.

“Why take off when you can taxi like the roadrunner? He’s the fastest run in the West, but the collared lizard’s got the drop on him – dropped his tail to save his neck. More comical than a caricature of himself, the lizard lovin’ roadrunner is a regular cactus-country cutup, a zany zygodactyl, and a desert dragster, a kooky cuckoo clocked at 15mph. The lizard? His throwaway tail will soon grow back, different maybe, but better’n no tail t’all.” – C. Harper

Dimensions

Visible image area measures 10.5" W x 18" H.

Item #

15CIN222-017