Artwork

Charley Harper (1922 - 2007) had an alternative way of looking at nature. Illustrating our world for six decades, he created thousands of bold, stunningly colorful works that manage to be both elegant and amusing. He revealed the unique aspects of his wildlife subjects through highly stylized geometric reduction in a style that he coined "minimal realism". Harper said he was "the only wildlife artist who has never been compared to Audubon," yet his wildlife art was just as instructive - the only difference was that Harper laced his lessons with humor.