Todd Oldham's Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life

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We've taken a look at Charles Harper's raccoons here at AT before. And we've seen Todd Oldham's use of Harper's burd prints in his own home and Harper's Harvest dishware by TAG...

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What we want to see now is Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life by Todd Oldham. It's a exhaustive collection of Harper's work lovingly compiled by Oldham. See more of Oldham on the work of Charley Harper in this video. Also printed in a limited edition, pictured above.

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I got this book for Christmas, and it's wonderful. What a tribute. It's enormous though. I think I will need to get a bigger coffee table just to show it off!

posted by barbidahll on February 4th 2008 at 7:54am
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At my local thrift store last month, a very cool graphic print of buzzards sitting on a power line caught my eye. It was priced at $40 but the owner gave it to me for $10 -- turned out to be a limited edition signed Charley Harper print. One of my favorite scores ever!

posted by lizinsac on February 4th 2008 at 10:59am
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You can flip through the book in it's entirety here. It's beautiful.

posted by cevec on February 4th 2008 at 4:59pm
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I'm an art appraiser from Kentucky. Harper's piece were huge here in the 1970s and 80s. About eight years ago I had an auctioneer tell me that Charley Harper's pieces would never "come back" and I watched as a lot of them went for about $40 at auction.
Then, last year TAG (the tabletop company) started reproducing his stuff on dishware. See this link...http://store.heliotropehome.com/chhabpl.html
and I knew something big was happening.

posted by cricketchirp on February 12th 2008 at 2:26pm
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