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Opie at Spring Training – Mesa, Arizona

 
 
 
 
 
In August 1963, Dr. Seuss donated Raising Money for the Arts to the La Jolla Art Center charity auction. It delighted the audience that night and won the top auction bid, more than was paid for a Cézanne drawing. It was one of the few times th
That anticipation is on full view in this pivotal image from Ted’s sequel, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. Just as the rules are about to be broken (again) and the mayhem re-ignited, he reminds us to listen to our own voice and follow it as we p
The strange looking vehicle driven by Sylvester McMonkey McBean in The Sneetches looks very much like a huge tractor built between 1899 and 1927 in Springfield, Massachusetts, Dr. Seuss’s hometown, by the Knox Automobile Company. The Knox line
Our newest fine art print beautifully recreates Dr. Seuss’s original collage process. The main image is printed on a woven fine art paper and then the two text blocks are collaged onto the work, giving the final piece a unique, dimensional qual
Jed Mattes, Dr. Seuss’s literary agent from 1974 to 1989, said of him: “Dr. Seuss was never mean—wicked, yes; but never mean. He was a courteous man of enormous grace and great dignity, and he cut any appearance of pomposity with a
Sunbathing Bird” is one of Dr. Seuss’s paintings from his La Jolla Birdwomen series—gentle spoofs of his chic neighbors. There are 11 known paintings in the series, all with lyrical titles that could have sprung only from the mind o
In the work done for The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, Dr. Seuss did something rarely found in his early-stage concept drawings. Here he combines pen and ink with colored pencil, crayon, and a watercolor wash to create the background. The resulting imag
In the summer of 1946, a New York friend treated Dr. Seuss to a retreat at his Villa Narcissa above the Pacific southwest of Los Angeles. After a few “golden mornings padding about the terrace,” Ted proclaimed that he wanted to spend the
When Dr. Seuss was comfortably at home, he spent most of his time in his La Jolla, California mountaintop studio. His daily inspiration was his view, a spectacular 180-degree panorama of the coastline from Oceanside to Mexico. This was one of his int
Exhibition Flashback! “There’s Fun to Be Done!” was not only the largest Art of Dr. Seuss museum exhibition in the history of the collection, it also included hands-on creative exhibits for children. Do you know what museum and city
 
 
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