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"My dad took a great interest in the fact that I took an interest in art, "he says. "He and my mom made sure I stuck with it and had good teachers and good influences around me. "
For a while, he worked as a sketch artist for an advertising agency in the Chrysler Building, and later contributed fashion drawings to The New Yorker and The New York Times Sunday Magazine and sports renderings in Sport Illustrated and Golf Magazine. Harrington's illustrations have also adorned the covers of nearly four hundred classic books including A Room With A View, Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina, and Don Quioxte. He's contributed poster images to The Masters, the Pebble Beach Open and other golf tournaments. And his poster of first-time British Open champion Tom Watson makes its home at the clubhouse of Watson-designed Cassique Golf Club near Charleston, South Carolina. more... |
Good
influences have fueled the success of the now forty-three-year-old
artist known for his evocative paintings of people and landscapes
and also for his success in commercial illustration. Shortly after
graduating with a bachelors's degree from Brooklyn's Pratt Institute
in 1981, Harrington's illustration career took off.