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TOMORROW · All day
The Art of Charley Harper: Creatures Wild and Tame
Friday, October 16 at Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
About this event
"The Art of Charley Harper: Creatures Wild and Tame" takes an in-depth look at the work of the beloved midcentury modern artist, designer, illustrator and nature advocate. Harper’s “minimal realism,” as he called his style, is deceptively simple, reducing nature to essential characteristics in elegant, witty, vividly colored imagery that breathes with life and personality. Deeply committed to wildlife conservation, Harper created dozens of now-iconic posters for the National Park Service and nature organizations. Featuring more than 140 of the artist’s drawings, gouaches, collages, screen prints, paintings and posters, "Creatures Wild and Tame" and its accompanying catalog, published by D. Giles Ltd., reveal the backstories behind Harper’s celebrated work. This exhibition is organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum in partnership with the Charley Harper Art Studio.
What to expect
Expect vivid, sharply distilled images of animals and the natural world, with Harper’s elegant geometry and wit used to reduce each creature to its essential character. The exhibition looks beyond the familiar finished images to share backstories behind Harper’s celebrated work, with an accompanying catalog published by D. Giles Ltd.
Why go
Organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum in partnership with the Charley Harper Art Studio, "Creatures Wild and Tame" offers a broad look at an artist whose visual language helped define how generations of viewers picture wildlife, conservation and modern design. For Cincinnati audiences, it is also a homegrown story: Harper’s art connects regional creative history with national parks, nature organizations and a lasting modernist approach to seeing animals in the wild and close to home.
Where
Cincinnati Art Museum · 953 Eden Park Dr. · Downtown, Cincinnati OHOpen in Maps
