More often than I would like a truly amazing artist fails to show up on my radar. So it was that I had never heard of Charlie Harper until earlier this year while I was researching 1950's modernist animation styles. I fell in love and bought a few children's books, but what I really wanted was the oversized, 424-page collected works volume called Charlie Harper an Illustrated Life. Well that book has finally been published in a more manageable size with all the same images (only at a quarter of the size), and you can get it from Amazon for an extremely reasonable price. For any fan of illustration I would call this the most buy book of the year. Now if I could only get Amazon to pay me for saying such things.
Enjoy...
Click here for a link to a Flickr Gallery from a 2009 exhibition of his originals:
