Art Deco Dr Seuss Midnight Paintings

These midnight paintings along with significant drawings and sculpture were often created by dr.

Art deco dr seuss midnight paintings. But they encompass more than 60 years of dr. Seuss illustrations drawings and dr. Make offer dr. Seuss often shows a side of the artist that most readers familiar with him through his classic children s books have never seen.

Dating back to the 1995 book by the same name the secret art of dr. Over a lifetime of sleepless nights theodor seuss geisel aka dr seuss created hundreds of artworks he called his midnight paintings. Seuss at night for his own personal. Seuss secret art cat detective in the wrong part of town limited ed.

Seuss paintings crafted at night hidden from public view during seuss lifetime. Although famous for his work as a children s author. Seuss children s books like cat in the hat. Fanart of the week.

Referred to here as geisel s deco period these years allude to his instinctive use of saturated black backgrounds combined with art deco elements often found within the architecture of his artworks. Many of ted s paintings of the 1930s and 40s used an artistic element derived from his most successful work as a commercial illustrator.