A wonderful vintage hand-painted needlepoint canvas based on Charley Harper’s 1970 artwork “Cardinal on the Corn.” Manufactured by K.D. Artistry, Inc. in 1992, this canvas beautifully translates Harper’s unmistakable modernist wildlife style into needlepoint form.
The design features a bold male cardinal rendered in Harper’s signature geometric simplicity: a brilliant red body, pointed crest, black facial mask, and orange beak, perched beside a textured ear of corn.
The original attached label reads “CARDINAL ON THE CORN”, pattern KD-C096, “From the art of Charley Harper, ©1970.
24.0 X 18.0 inches
This piece is especially appealing to collectors of Charley Harper’s work, vintage needlepoint canvases, modernist wildlife design, and fans of the Todd Oldham Studio world. Todd Oldham has long championed Harper’s work and helped introduce it to new audiences through several Harper books, making this canvas a lovely crossover piece for design, craft, and illustration collectors.
A charming and graphic vintage needlepoint canvas celebrating Charley Harper’s beloved ability to reduce nature to its most elegant, humorous, and colorful forms.
A wonderful vintage hand-painted needlepoint canvas based on Charley Harper’s 1970 artwork “Cardinal on the Corn.” Manufactured by K.D. Artistry, Inc. in 1992, this canvas beautifully translates Harper’s unmistakable modernist wildlife style into needlepoint form.
The design features a bold male cardinal rendered in Harper’s signature geometric simplicity: a brilliant red body, pointed crest, black facial mask, and orange beak, perched beside a textured ear of corn.
The original attached label reads “CARDINAL ON THE CORN”, pattern KD-C096, “From the art of Charley Harper, ©1970.
24.0 X 18.0 inches
This piece is especially appealing to collectors of Charley Harper’s work, vintage needlepoint canvases, modernist wildlife design, and fans of the Todd Oldham Studio world. Todd Oldham has long championed Harper’s work and helped introduce it to new audiences through several Harper books, making this canvas a lovely crossover piece for design, craft, and illustration collectors.
A charming and graphic vintage needlepoint canvas celebrating Charley Harper’s beloved ability to reduce nature to its most elegant, humorous, and colorful forms.