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This online exhibit of Science Art
is dedicated to Registry Participants


. Richard Sloan
and
Charley Harper


who passed away in 2007


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Debbie Moore, Richard Sloan's daughter notes:

"He was a great inspiration. Up until the time he passed away he continued to pursue his passions in life and was truly an example to all of us that as we age, we can continue to enjoy life and the things we love. My father had many interests that, in addition to traveling and photography, included falconry, scuba diving (which he took up again in his 60s after moving to Florida), and in the last couple of years-- when he tired of painting--film-making, videography and video-editing."

"He mentored young artists who shared his passion for painting and sought his advice and knowledge."

"My father was a conservationist and naturalist who, through his paintings, has left behind a history of the birds and mammals that share our planet now but whose future may in jeopardy. Even in death, he emplified his love of nature and the preservation of the planet by requesting that his remains become part of an artificial reef that supports marine life."

Donald Kennedy, Registry associate notes:

"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 became 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 representations that resemble caricatures often stimulate a thought that follows the first chuckle.

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



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