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The Art of Dr. Seuss Collection
The Art of Dr. Seuss Collection
Dr. Seuss
Wednesday November 8, 2017 - Saturday January 6, 2018
6:00 - 8:00

    
Please Join us for and interesting and playful exhibit of the works of Dr. Seuss.

His artistic vision emerged as the golden thread that linked every facet of his varied career, and his artwork became the platform from which he delivered forty-four children's books, more than 400 World War II political cartoons, hundreds of advertisements, and countless editorials filled with wonderfully inventive animals, characters, and humor.

Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, began his career as a little-known editorial cartoonist in the 1920s.  His intriguing perspective and fresh concepts ignited his career, and his work evolved quickly to deft illustrations, modeled sculpture, and sophisticated oil paintings of elaborate imagination.  His artistic vision emerged as the golden thread that linked every facet of his varied career, and his artwork became the platform from which he delivered forty-four children's books, more than 400 World War II political cartoons, hundreds of advertisements, and countless editorials filled with wonderfully inventive animals, characters, and humor.

Geisel single-handedly forged a new genre of art that falls somewhere between the surrealist movement of the early 20th century and the inspired nonsense of a child's classroom doodles.  The Art of Dr. Seuss project offers a rare glimpse into the artistic life of this celebrated American icon and chronicles almost seven decades of work that, in every respect is uniquely, stylistically, and endearingly Seussia.

Like Norman Rockwell, Dr. Seuss created every rough sketch, preliminary drawing, final line drawing, and finished work for each page of every project he illustrated.

Despite the technical and budgetary limitations of color printing during the early and mid-twentieth century, Dr. Seuss was meticulous about color selection. He created specially numbered color charts and intricate color callouts to precisely accomplish his vision for each book. Saturated reds and blues, for example, were carefully chosen for The Cat in the Hat to attract and maintain the visual attention of a six-year-old audience.

Even before Dr. Seuss's book career took off, sharp draftsman skills were evident in his editorial works, advertisements, and cartoons. His ability to move a storyline ahead via illustrations filled with tension, movement, and color became a hallmark of his children's literature, and the surreal images that unfolded over six decades became the catalyst for a humorous and inspired learning experience.

            

Fooling Nobody
36 x 24 Inches  Limited Edition Serigraph on Canvas
Flower Fish
24 x 36 Inches  Serigraph on Canvas
The Stag at Eve
36 x 24 Inches  Serigraph on Board
After Dark in the Park
36 x 24 Inches  Pigment Print Mixed Media on Canvas
Relaxed in Spite of It
30 x 49 Inches  Serigraph on Paper
A Man who made an Unwise Purchase
36 x 27 Inches  Serigraph on Canvas
Firebird
22 x 44 Inches  Pigment Print Mixed Media on Canvas
Turtle Tower
24 x 14 Inches  Lithograph on Paper
Black Fish...Blue Fish...Old Fish...New Fish
9 x 12 Inches  Limited Edition Reproduction
On the Far Away Island of Salamasond, Yertle the Turtle was King of the Pond
9 x 12 Inches  Limited Edition Reproduction
Cats C, B and A
17 x 13 Inches  Serigraph on Paper
We Looked! Then we Saw Him Step in on the Mat - Single
11 x 17 Inches  Serigraph on Paper
The Cat that Changed the World
53 x 42 Inches  Pigment Print on Paper
Yawning Cat
17 x 52.5 Inches  Pigment Print on Paper
Cat in the Hat - Sold Out
15 x 7.5 x 12 Inches  Bronze
Green Eggs and Ham Maquette
20.5 x 9 x 8 Inches  Bronze
Semi Normal Green Lidded Fawn
23 x 30 x 28 Inches  Sculpture
The Art of Dr Seuss Collection
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