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A signed version of the 2008 Coca-Cola calendar by South Carolina artist Jim Harrison will be available through the end of January 2008. Proceeds from the sale of the calendar will benefit a scholarship at USC Aiken in memory of the artist's late mother, Anne Harrison.
The calendar, an 11-inch x 13-inch size, features 12 full-color images appropriately arranged to match the seasons of the year. Each image is nostalgic and created around a Coca-Cola trademark of years past.
The cover of the calendar features a new image "Coke Sign, Green Grass, and Green Trees."
"I sketched this barn some years ago and was actually very surprised to see a Coca-Cola sign on it," Harrison said. "I later last year discovered my sketch, liked the simple composition, and did a finished painting. I went back before painting it, but the sign and barn were both gone."
Harrison, a licensed artist of the Coca-Cola Company, received a Merit Award for the calendar series in the Calendar Marketing Association's seventh-annual National Calendar Awards competition. Harrison's art and writing have placed him among the nation's foremost chroniclers of earlier 20th-century rural life. His paintings faithfully bring to life the nostalgic images of America's rural past with subjects that represent the spirit of the American agrarian society.
Harrison has had successful one-man shows at the New York Hammer Galleries and the San Francisco Conacher Galleries. His works also have been included in annual shows at the National Academy Gallery in New York.
The signed calendars are available at Security Federal bank branches.
For more information on works by Harrison, call the Jim Harrison Gallery at 800-793-5796.
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