Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life, by Charley Harper and Todd Oldham, hardcover, 424 pages, AMMO Books, list price: $49.95
This gorgeously reproduced overview of the work of American modernist Charley Harper is a labor of love from Todd Oldham. In 2002, the celebrated designer sought out the aging and largely unheralded Harper after stumbling onto some of Harper's minimalist yet dizzyingly sophisticated illustrations in a rural Pennsylvania thrift store. Although he didn't know it at the time, the images resonated with Oldham for a reason: Harper's exuberantly colored drawings for a biology textbook had had a life-changing impact on Oldham as a kid. Harper's passionate subject was the natural world, and there is, unquestionably, a childlike wonder in his dozens of depictions of birds and insects and wildlife. [See image 5 of the Springer Spaniel. Doesn't it make you happy?]Oldham's tribute to his hero (who died in 2007, at age 84) floats on the wings of these beautiful creatures and Harper's expressive, one-of-kind talent. "
Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life, by Charley Harper and Todd Oldham, hardcover, 424 pages, AMMO Books, list price: $49.95
This gorgeously reproduced overview of the work of American modernist Charley Harper is a labor of love from Todd Oldham. In 2002, the celebrated designer sought out the aging and largely unheralded Harper after stumbling onto some of Harper's minimalist yet dizzyingly sophisticated illustrations in a rural Pennsylvania thrift store. Although he didn't know it at the time, the images resonated with Oldham for a reason: Harper's exuberantly colored drawings for a biology textbook had had a life-changing impact on Oldham as a kid. Harper's passionate subject was the natural world, and there is, unquestionably, a childlike wonder in his dozens of depictions of birds and insects and wildlife. [See image 5 of the Springer Spaniel. Doesn't it make you happy?]Oldham's tribute to his hero (who died in 2007, at age 84) floats on the wings of these beautiful creatures and Harper's expressive, one-of-kind talent. "
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