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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. Harper, a farm boy, had never heard of feeding stations and had also, apparently, never before taken a good hard look at birds. In 1954, art editor Arthur Lougee asked Harper to illustrate an E.B.