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Charley Harper's ABC's

6" x 6"
64 chunky pages

$14.95

Charley Harper's Bird's & Words

8" x 6"
152 pages

$27.95

FOR OVER FIVE decades Charley Harper has been illustrating our world. From his science paintings for the Giant Golden Book of Biology, to the lyrical line drawings in Betty Crocker's Dinner for Two CookBook, Mr. Harper's hand is undeniable.

Painting in a style he calls "minimal realism', he captures the essence of his subject using the fewest elements possible. 'I don't count the feathers, I just count the wings.'

For the first time, his life's work is being presented in

CHARLEY HARPER: AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE

by TODD OLDHAM

BOOK WITH STANDARD COVER

HARDCOVER
17.3 X 12.2 INCHES
440 PAGES

$200

LIMITED EDITIONS AVAILABLE

Each numbered, limited edition book is signed by Charley Harper & Todd Oldham.

Each edition comes with an elegant cloth slipcase and a special-edition silkscreen print.

LIMITED EDITION 1

HARDCOVER WITH SLIPCASE
WITH SILKSCREEN PRINT GRAND CANYON, 1952
17 X 12 INCHES

440 PAGES
17.3 X 12.2 INCHES
250 NUMBERED COPIES

$400

LIMITED EDITION 2

HARDCOVER WITH SLIPCASE
WITH SILKSCREEN PRINT SHADOW DANCERS, 1960
17 X 12 INCHES

440 PAGES
17.3 X 12.2 INCHES
250 NUMBERED COPIES

$800

LIMITED EDITION 3

HARDCOVER WITH SLIPCASE
WITH SILKSCREEN PRINT MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD, 1956
17 X 12 INCHES

440 PAGES
17.3 X 12.2 INCHES
250 NUMBERED COPIES

$400

LIMITED EDITION 4

HARDCOVER WITH SLIPCASE
WITH SILKSCREEN PRINT GREEN JAY, 1956
17 X 12 INCHES

440 PAGES
17.3 X 12.2 INCHES
250 NUMBERED COPIES

$600

Charley Harper answers the questions he is asked most often about his work, challenges your previous perception of nature with 114 pictures and paragraphs (on 132 pages, 11 1/4 x 11 1/4), and offers a new and unexpected - and unprecedented - way to enjoy it, both visually and verbally. Unlike traditional surrealistic wildlife art, his is flat, simple, and funny. Instead of putting all the details in when he paints, he tries to leave them all out; he reduces nature to the simplest possible visual terms without losing identity, thereby enhancing identity. Minimal realism, he calls it, adding, "When Audubon painted a bird, he had to count all the feathers in the wings. I just count the wings."

Samples from the Book

samples

Buy the Charley Harper Book, Beguiled by the Wild -$39.95

(please note when purchasing, you need to select the UPS Ground - Book option for shipping)

123's - skinny version

6 X 6 INCHES
20 PAGES

$9.95

ABC's - skinny version

6 X 6 INCHES
20 PAGES

$9.95

Birds & Words - small - Limited Editions

LIMITED EDITION 1

Birds & Words - small - with Flamingo print
8 X 6 INCHES
152 PAGES
1000 NUMBERED COPIES

$100

LIMITED EDITION 2

Birds & Words - small - with Heath Hen print
8 X 6 INCHES
152 PAGES
1000 NUMBERED COPIES

$100

LIMITED EDITION 3

Birds & Words - small - with Red-Eyed Vireo print
8 X 6 INCHES
152 PAGES
1000 NUMBERED COPIES

$100

LIMITED EDITION 4

Birds & Words - small - with Snowy Egret print
8 X 6 INCHES
152 PAGES
1000 NUMBERED COPIES

$100

EDIE HARPER

MY NOSE IS RUNNING

11 X 9 INCHES
22 PAGES

$12.95

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