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DESCRIPTION:Oct 16\, 2026 - Mar 7\, 2027\nThe genius of Charley Harper was 
 to render animals and their habitats not as a naturalist would\, counting 
 feathers\, but with the postwar confidence\, pinpoint control\, Pop color\
 , and jazzy\, geometric wit of a midcentury modernist. In his own way\, Ha
 rper was an action painter without the angst and alcohol and overriding eg
 o\, injecting flat surfaces with kinetic purpose. For nearly 30 years\, he
  was the in-house illustrator for Ford Times\, the culture magazine of the
  Ford Motor Company\, his striking jet-age covers as emblematic of that er
 a as Norman Rockwell’s homespun vignettes were for The Saturday Evening 
 Post. Energy was in the air. The studio where Harper and his wife\, Edie\,
  toiled (she was an exemplary collaborator and artist in her own right) ha
 d the productive disarray of Andy Warhol’s Factory\, minus the zonked-ou
 t hangers-on. And even in profiled repose\, Harper’s birds look aerodyna
 mic\, ready for blastoff potential. But he wasn’t strictly for the birds
 . His menagerie encompassed all of creaturedom: four-legged critters resti
 ng on their haunches or poised to pounce\, eyes like headlights\; insects 
 dotted along a Mondrian grid or in Pac-Man clusters. This exhibition at th
 e Cincinnati Art Museum displays more than 140 drawings\, gouaches\, colla
 ges\, screen prints\, paintings\, and posters. It’s Saint-Saëns’s The
  Carnival of the Animals in kaleidoscopic array.
LOCATION:Cincinnati Art Museum\, 953 Eden Park Dr\, Cincinnati\, OH 45202\,
  United States
SUMMARY:Charley Harper
URL;VALUE=TEXT:https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/charley-harper
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