(after) Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)
Dr. Seuss, Tower of Babel

About the Item

Tower of Babel Screenprint on Archival Panel - Limited Edition of 475 Arabic Numbers Authorized Estate Edition 36.25” x 24.25” paper Ready to hang Adapted posthumously from the original ink and watercolor on illustration board. Dr. Seuss used many of the components in his short-lived 1935 “Hejji” comic strip as source material for Tower of Babel in its elaborateness. Dr. Seuss was notably a great artistic recycler—an exemplary model of efficiency and resource conservation, never throwing out a doodle, a verse, or an offhanded notation of an idea. A scrap of paper from 1926 could be the catalyst for a major book forty years later, a composition from an early editorial project the basis for a significant painting. Tower of Babel is but one excellent example. DR. SEUSS (Theodor Seuss Geisel) Theodor "Ted" Seuss Geisel, most known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss, would often take different artistic genres and portray them in his inimitable style. Consider, for instance, the Cubism of The Rather Odd Myopic Woman, the Abstraction of The Joyous Leaping of Uncanned Salmon, and the Surrealism of Surly Cat Being Ejected. In a work such as Worm Burning Bright in the Forest in the Night, he even re-interpreted Pollock's drip paintings of the 1960s. An avid artistic and cultural sponge, it’s possible that Geisel, while on his annual New York trip to Random House, saw MoMA’s 1967 comprehensive Pollock exhibition. In ways such as this it is evident Dr. Seuss worked with an artistic tact that was more often than not surprisingly nuanced.

Creator:
(after) Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) (1901 - 1991, American)
Dimensions:
Height: 36.25 in (92.08 cm)Width: 24.25 in (61.6 cm)
Medium:
Screen
Period:
1990-1999
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Miami, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU57831983963
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