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Charley Harper
American Modernist artist (1922–2007)
Charley Harper
Charley Harper (August 4, 1922 – June 10, 2007) was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist. He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters, and book illustrations. Born Charles Burton Harper in Frenchton, West Virginia, in 1922, Harper's upbringing on his family farm influenced his work to his last days. He left his farm home to study art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and won the academy's first Stephen H. Wilder Traveling Scholarship. Also, during his time at the Academy, and supposedly on the first day, Charley met fellow artist Edie McKee, whom he married shortly after graduation in 1947. In 1953, a Ford Motor Company publication offered this biographical sketch: "While Charles Harper was a freshman at West Virginia Wesleyan College, he was advised, after an aptitude test, to study journalism. Something inside him said no, and the following year he enrolled in the Cincinnati Art Academy. After a [WWII] tour of duty with the 104th Infantry...
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