2008 Coca-Cola Calendar Available at Security Federal Bank
Proceeds Benefit Scholarship at USC Aiken
October 30, 2007
Security Federal Bank and renowned South Carolina artist Jim Harrison have made a signed version of The 2008 Coca-Cola Calendar available for purchase through the end of January 2008. The calendar, an 11” x 13” 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. These signed and numbered calendars are available at Security Federal branches with proceeds benefiting a scholarship at the University of South Carolina Aiken in memory of the artist’s late mother, Anne Harris on.
The cover of the calendar features a new image "Coke Sign, Green Grass and Green Trees." According to Harrison, "I sketched this barn some years ago and was actually very surprised to see a Coca-Cola sign on it. 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."
“We are very pleased to support our university—USC Aiken—again this year through the sale of the Jim Harrison Coca-Cola Calendars at our Security Federal branches,” said Chris Verenes, president of Security Federal Bank. “The calendars are very popular and go to help a great, local institution that is nationally recognized.”
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 Twentieth Century rural life. His paintings faithfully bring to life the nostalgic images of America’s rural past with subjects that represent the true spirit of the American agrarian society. Harrison has had successful one-man shows at the prominent New York Hammer Galleries and the San Francisco Conacher Galleries. His works have also been included in annual shows at the prestigious National Academy Gallery in New York.
The calendars are available for $18, which includes tax. For more information on works by Jim Harrison, call Jim Harrison Gallery at 1-800-793-5796.
Photo above: (from left to right) Chris Verenes , president of Security Federal Bank,
Jim Harrison, and Tom Hallman, USCA chancellor
Photo above: Cover of 2008 Coca-Cola Calendar
