An avid naturalist, Charley Harper enjoyed painting the insects, plants, birds, and animals he loved. He masterfully portrayed a host of spe.
Charley Harper’s artistic life was all about shape and color. From his early days on a West Virginia farm through his career as a midcentury modernist, Charley (1922–2007) understood the power of black lines in art. He never owned or used a computer to draw. Rather, Charley maintained a collection of drafting tools familiar to the architect and the engineer: compasses, T squares, and french curves with which he applied lines to paper via a ruling pen filled with india ink. Even in his early…
