Parker, Harley

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Personality
| System number 987007340737405171

Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Parker, Harley
Date of birth
1915-04-13
Date of death
1992-03-03
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 21688110
Wikidata: Q15485246
Library of congress: no 00050663
Sources of Information
  • The culture box, 2025:back cover (Harley Parker (1915-1992) was a Canadian typographer, painter, and museum exhibition designer)
  • Through the vanishing point, c1968:t.p. (Harley Parker)

Wikipedia description:

Harley Parker (April 13, 1915 – March 3, 1992) was a Canadian artist, designer, curator, professor and scholar - a frequent collaborator with fellow Canadian and communications theorist Marshall McLuhan. Parker specialized in watercolour painting, and exhibited internationally. He was awarded numerous grants over his life, including two Canada Council Grants, and a British Council of the Arts Grant. He lectured all over the world, was published internationally, and collaborated closely with manifold scholars and thinkers, McLuhan among them.

Read more on Wikipedia >