Harry Anderson’s
JIGSAW PUZZLES
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PUZZLE #27: The Kiss
*(Since this was a monotone gray painting I had it made into the larger puzzle pieces.)
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PUZZLE #26: Goin’ Swimming!
(Made from 2 of Harry’s PISTON RINGS Ads)
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PUZZLE #25: Boy & Mouse
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PUZZLE #24: Girl Scouts!
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PUZZLE #23: T-rex Hunt!
Wait a minute! Is that a dinosaur??
Harry Anderson never painted a dinosaur in any of paintings!
No, he didn’t — here’s what that hunting scene looked like in Harry Anderson’s 1964 “Quail Hunt” illustration for SPORTS AFIELD magazine:
When I layed out this scene into my jigsaw puzzle, the area with the Quail looked “too empty”… so I had my dinosaur artist friend Bryan Riolo add in a T-rex!
Now we’ve got ourselves an **EXCITING puzzle**!!!
Bryan also added Harry’s signature and the text along the top — here’s what the art looked like that I sent to the puzzle company….
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Me & Harry Anderson in 1986
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The Rabbit Lady
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The Sunday Comics with my pic of Harry
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Harry Anderson’s 1953 “JUPITER”
A beautiful painting… but it has 2 text boxes blocking the art… so we added 2 pics of Harry into those boxes (and a big scan of Harry’s signature)!
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Shirley
(…and the final area competed was the young girl’s face…)
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The Busy Doctor w/Harry’s Pic
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A Nose Job for Mom
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Bird Girl
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Christmas Girl
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Harry’s Horse-powered Tractor
(((….saving the horses to do last….)))
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In the Doghouse
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The Pointing Boy
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Red Car in the Snow
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Me & Harry Again (& Steve Rude’s pic of Harry)
NOTE: (I still haven’t found the magazine that printed that painting Harry is standing next to!)
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Jesus Holding the World
(signed by Harry in 1986)
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The Judgment (also signed by Harry)
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The Yellow Car
(I first saw this one in 1984 in b&w — then years later I found the color calendars!)
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The Sled
(I was contacted in 2014 by the 77 year old man who posed with his sled for Harry back when he was 15…)
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Little Boy Angel Collage
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Baby Sitting Boy
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Carwash... (he can’t go play football till he’s done)…
Again, I inserted my pic of Harry and me….
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Harry’s Commercially Published Jigsaw Puzzles
The Guardian Angel
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Boy Going Fishing
Oops, it was missing 4 pieces…
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Building the Telegraph
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Discovering the Grand Canyon
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George Washington coming to New York
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Jesus and the Children
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Jesus at the Helm
(Available from R&H Publishing as of July 2014)
A word of caution: This is a 1,000-piece puzzle, which I don’t like doing — the pieces are too many and too small for the puzzle to be “fun”….
All the puzzles that I have had made were 550-piece puzzles — below I show one of their LARGER PIECES next to the smaller pieces:
I sorted out all the “connected” puzzle pieces, and attempted to do the border…
I really hate 1000+ piece puzzles — do you know how many times you have to handle each of those 1000 pieces to organize them, sort them, then try to match each of their 4 sides?!? Somebody should do the math on this, because I have the feeling that to complete something like this a person has to go through at least 250,000 mind-eye-hand coordination movements!!!!!!!
That is *NOT* something that is “fun” to do!!!
Oh, I did accidentally find parts of the faces, and Harry Anderson’s sig…
But that is probably as far as this puzzle will ever go.
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“The Globe”
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