"My own connection with Charley Harper came about because my father was the editor of Ford Times and his art director, Arthur Lougee, became aware of Charley’s re- markable portraits of birds. Charley’s early silk-screens be- came family items; my daughters have several still."*
As an enthusiastic birder I quickly came to admire the mixture of ecological insight and close knowledge of bird habits as well as habitats. Even those represent- ations that resemble caricatures often stimulate a thought that follows the first chuckle–why is that House Wren fooling with that boot-lace??
We are grateful to Charley’s son Brett for his approval of this dedication, which salutes Charley Harper as an artist with a re- markable gift for sending science messages with his art.
*The Ford Times would go on to publish a series of Charley Harper's serigraphs
