#charley harper

[nobrashfestivity]

Charley Harper, Darwin's Finches, from The Giant Golden Book of Biology, 1961

[hitku]

by Charley Harper

[antediluvianechoes]

Passenger pigeon, Charley Harper

Do living things know when the end is coming? Do they see the oncoming failure and accept it with a morose indifference? Is extinction an option or an inevitability? Can behaviors be curtailed to prevent it, or is every new existence just one life closer to the closing of the book?

[charleyharperid]

Flamingo

Bullock's oriole (updated 20 Jul '23)

Victoria Crowned Pigeon

Sunbittern

Little auk? (updated 20 Jul '23)

Red-headed barbet?

Scarlet-rumped Tanager

Green broadbill

Violet-backed starling

Great Hornbill

Blue-and-yellow Macaw

Southern Carmine Bee-eater

Atlantic Puffin

Barn Owl

Grey-crowned Crane

Flying Fox (bat)

Epaulet oriole?

Red admiral (butterfly)

Kiwi

Gouldian Finch

Humboldt Penguin

Rufous treepie?

Scarlet Ibis

Woodland kingfisher

Roseate Spoonbill

Green magpie

Buff-bellied hummingbird

Green parrot finch

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldReefDay:

Charley Harper (American, 1922-2007), The Coral Reef, 1979. Virgin Islands, Biscayne & Dry Tortugas National Parks & Buck Island Reef & Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monuments. One of a series of posters made for the National Park Service:

[cannedpoo]

Charley Harper

[lisamarie-vee]

[thekimdelacreme]

[tentacledwizard]

does anybody remember charley harper’s art? when i was like five that was undoubtedly The Good Stuff. and it still is now

[holespoles]

Charley Harper, Limp on a Limb into a new week

[hitku]

by Charley Harper

[antiqueanimals]

Illustration from “When the Buzzards Come Back to Hinkley” Ford Times, March, 1964, © Ford Motor Company. Illustration by Charley Harper.

[ageofinvincibility]

Why take off when you can taxi like the roadrunner? He’s the fastest run in the West, but the collared lizard’s got the drop on him—dropped his tail to save his neck. More comical than a caricature of himself, the lizard lovin’ roadrunner is a regular cactus-country cutup, a zany zygodactyl, and a desert dragster, a kooky cuckoo clocked at 15mph. The lizard? His throwaway tail will soon grow back, different maybe, but better’n no tail t’all. –Charley Harper

[arthistoryanimalia]

Charley Harper was born #OTD (4 August 1922 – 10 June 2007), so here’s one of his images that’s perfect for transitioning from #FrogFriday into #Baturday:

Bat, Bullfrog, and Bonfire (glow-in-the-dark lithograph)

“This artwork comes from an illustration Charley originally did for the Ford Times magazine in May 1968, about a canoe trip down the South Fork of the Cumberland River in Kentucky.”

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“Eye of newt, and toe of frog,

Wool of bat, and tongue of dog…

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”

“One of these campers might be scaring the others with these lines from Shakespeare recalled from high school. Another might go for the tale of the ancient Indian chief whose spirit was said to haunt the night. At any rate, it’s doubtful the wildlife give a hoot. (Well, maybe a hoot or two!) The bat and bullfrog go about their business, both nocturnal creatures, bat hunting and bullfrog mating, revelling in the darkness. On the other hand, the creeped-out campers seem to huddle ever closer to the embers and each other, delighting in scary tales and s’mores.”

(description by the artist)

[coltonwbrown]

Pelican in a Downpour Charley Harper

Source

[charleyharperid]

Giant Malaysian leaf insect

Carpenter ant?

Royal Goliath beetle

Blue Dasher

Polyphemus moth

Goliath stick insect

Two-spot lady bird

Harlequin ladybird

Rhetenor blue morph butterfly

Monarch butterfly chrysalis

Colorado potato beetle?

Luna moth caterpillar?

Some kind of katydid?