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Portraits by Dugald Stermer
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COMMUNICATION ARTS is Dedicated to
MARLIN PERKINS
Top: Rare Southern Minke Whale. Middle: Southern A1inke Whale. Bottom: Northern Minke Whale. These pencil-point dra wings demonstrate the extraordi nary lengths Foster goes to in his attention to detail ; note1 if you can 1 the distinctions betwun the three varieties.
Bowhead whale, Ba.laena mt~eticetwu (Length to 65 ft.)
Back when first class postage was 8 cents1 Larry designed five postage stamps. They have finally bun approved for printing 1 sometime.
Whales of the
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A j ew " authoritative" dra wings culled from the "Larousse Encyclopedia of Animal Life" [top jour]1 the wrrent Random Hou se Dictionary [bottom right]1 and a 1966 issue of Scientific Am erican [bottom left]. Compare the whale's bulky shapes with the fa r sleeker silhouettes drawn by Foster.
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ST. LUCIA [CARIBBEAN] IGUANA [Cyclura macleayi]
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FARLEY SUNDAY FUNNIES Drawn for this Special Issue
by Phil Frank
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Leopard in a sausage tree
African buffalo
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Compile~ Illustrated & Described by Bill Prochnow
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IT IS RUMORED that this reptile, reticent by natztre and rare in the large graphic forests, is still to be fo~t~zd in the backwater arzd midlands where clients design their own logos. They can quickly produce layo11ts with chalk, render type with chisel penrils, and, if reqztired, resort to calligraphy. At the approach of their herding srason, they change to a day-glo orange and fall prey to n0stalgic trends, neo-p11shpinism, cheesecake, clip books and wax-back halftone screens .
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E NEED ANOTHER AND A WISER AND PERHAPS A MORE MYSTICAL CONCEPT OF ANIMALS. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life ~nd time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth. From TilE OUTERMOST HOUSE by H<nry Bc>tnn
From The Outermost House by Henry Beston. Copyright 1928 © 1956 Beston. Reprinted by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Made for Judge William A. Newsom, by Harold Berliner, Printer, 224 Main Street, Nevada City, California 95959· Copyright © 1977 by Harold Berliner. Designed by Wolfgang Lederer. Copies of this broadside are available through the printer. March/April I 980
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