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1991,
oil on canvas 32” x 36” First appearance of this, as of yet, un-named animal |
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1991,
oil on canvas 30” x 36” The second appearance, this time with a blanket |
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A third painting done late in 1991 was never completed and was subsequently painted over. Fortunately a black and white photo of it exists which shows an uncanny glimpse of the narrative’s future development. The building here in the background could easily have been the “Classical Studies Building” from book two. |
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In issue #10 of works & conversations, Harrison talks about how the animal figure became Indigo Animal and left the canvas to enter the world of cartoon narrative with pencil and ink drawings, the first of which appeared in issue #2 of the arts magazine The Secret Alameda. Seven episodes of
Indigo Animal appeared in The Secret Alameda between 1991
and 1998. In 1999, Harrison’s first book Indigo Animal
was published. A third volume awaits for the resolution of this stage
of Indigo’s story.
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