John Cyril Harrison (1898 – 1985)

Harrison was a well-respected English artist who had a looser style than that of the gouache using illustrators who most influenced me.  His work that I am most familiar with appears to have been done as classic watercolors, allowing the white paper to show through.  But as a result they seem, like so much of G. M. Sutton’s work, to be flat, but very slightly lack the ornithological acumen and detail of Sutton. I certainly saw reproductions of Harrison’s work growing up, and I am sure it influenced me to some degree, but less so than the work of most artists mentioned here.