Charley Harper Limited Edition Serigraph "Bittern Suite"

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A limited edition serigraph print titled Bittern Suite by American artist and illustrator Charley Harper (1922-2007). This playful animal print depicts full nest of baby bitterns under a larger mother. At the bottom of the composition a young bittern flails its wings as it fall from the nest. The work is signed in graphite in the lower right and hand numbered 212 in an edition of 2500. It is presented under glass in layered tan and brown mats in a stained wood. There is a hanging wire mounted to the verso.

Charley Harper was an American Modernist artist and illustrator based out of 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

- minor scratches on the framework

Dimensions

Visible image measurements are 10.25 × 15.5 inches

Item #

17LOU197-073