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Nicholas Hammond on Charley Harper:
"His were not the usual photos or photorealistic paintings. They showed angular creatures produced using mechanical drawing instruments – compasses, protractors, rulers. Charley's work was quite unlike any wildlife art I had ever seen – style he described as minimal realism: never counting the feathers, just counting the wings. Nothing could be further from the realism of most of the American wildlife art in the last quarter of the past century. Charley joked that he was the only wildlife artist not to be compared with Audubon by the marketing people. He was a printmaker; his medium was seriography – printing with blocks of color through a silkscreen. His use of the medium is very clever – blocks of color within geometric shapes that perfectly convey the characteristics of the animals they represent. The strong design element is composition at its best. Harper's composition is even better than the great Audubon."
Nicholas Hammond is the former editor of Birds magazine, a publication for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. He is currently chief executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, and Peterborough.
A special limited edition of 300 posters of Cool Cardinal has been created. The actual image size is 5.375" x 17.5", and the matted size is 8.375" x 21". The outside frame dimension is 9.5" x 22.125". Each special limited edition poster comes with a signed certificate of authenticity from Brett Harper, Charley Harper's son. The full-color reproduction is printed on a neutral pH, acid-free paper.
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