Count the Wings: The Life and Art of Charley Harper
Count the Wings: The Life and Art of Charley Harper
Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Ohio University Press (April 30, 2018)
- ISBN-10: 082142307X
- ISBN-13: 978-0821423073
Charley Harper was a midcentury modern artist who spent most of his life in Cincinnati, Ohio. His brightly-colored, minimal designs have appeared on notecards, Old Navy T-shirts, and La-Z-Boy furniture. His original art and numbered and signed serigraph prints are coveted by collections worldwide.
Charley’s fascination with nature subjects began in childhood, at home on the farm near Buckhannon, West Virginia. Find out more about the artist, the soldier, the writer, and naturalist in this colorful biography for readers ages 8 and up.