Maurice Noble

The Cat In The Hat Original Watercolor Concept Painting Signed by Maurice Noble

1971

MEDIUM: ​Original Production Cel on Printed Background IMAGE SIZE: 12 Field PRODUCTION: Looney Tunes SIGNED: Darrell Van Citters SKU: IFA6782 ABOUT THE IMAGE: Looney Tunes is a ser...

MEDIUM: ​Original Production Cel on Printed Background IMAGE SIZE: 12.5" x 10.5" PRODUCTION: Looney Tunes SKU: IFA10632 ABOUT THE IMAGE: Looney Tunes is a series of animated short...

MEDIUM: ​Original Production Cel on Printed Background IMAGE SIZE: 10.5" x 9" PRODUCTION: Looney Tunes SIGNED: Darrell Van Citters SKU: IFA6783 ABOUT THE IMAGE: Looney Tunes is a s...

MEDIUM: ​Original Production Cel IMAGE SIZE: 12 Field PRODUCTION: Looney Tunes SIGNED: Darrell Van Citters SKU: IFA6759 ABOUT THE IMAGE: Looney Tunes is a series of animated short f...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

First Edition, third issue of Dr. Seuss' most famous book, accompanied by a card bearing the AUTHOR's SIGNATURE and a quick SKETCH of his famous "green egg." Seuss, Dr. (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904 – 1991) The Cat in the Hat New York: Random House, 1957. First edition, First Printing, Third Issue. Dust jacket. 8vo, 9 x 6 1/2" (230 x 165 mm), (2) + 61 + (1) pp; pictorial end papers, verso of free end paper blank, pictorial title page, copyright page. Binding with glazed pictorial paper cover over boards and title on spine, very light signs of wear at corners and spine ends, binding stitched at 1 inch intervals; upper cover illustrated and lettered with addition of "For beginner readers"; back cover with excerpts from reviews printed in letterpress below illustration of chalkboard reading Educators hail The Cat in the Hat. Printed in red, black, salmon, dark blue and light blue on wove paper, with bold illustrations on every spread; pages a touch yellowed on edges. On the back of the last page of text is a note on the book enclosed within a large outline in blue of Cat in the Hat. The ORIGINAL DUST WRAPPER in near fine condition, with just slight wear on corners and a chip on the bottom of the spine, reproduces the book's cover; front flap bears price on upper right corner, 195/195, indicating this is the second state of the dust jacket. Accompanied by a small drawing of a "green egg" with "Dr. Seuss" autograph in black ink with on a light green index card, 3 x 5 in. (76 x 127 mm). [Younger & Hirsch 7; Greenaway 95] Dr. Seuss was challenged by Houghton Mifflin's Education Division director, William Ellsworth Spaulding, to create a book for young children using the 225 essential words for beginning readers, a book they would not want to put down. Seuss used 223 of the words from the list, plus 13 others. Seuss tricked kids into enjoying learning with his destructive and charismatic house guest. Inspired in part by Krazy Kat and Felix the Cat, but with a wily mind all his own, the Cat in the Hat's humor and naughtiness are engaged in the noble cause of literacy. "Parents," notes biographer Brian Jay Jones, "were more than happy to join Dr. Seuss as fellow revolutionaries. Even if parents didn't necessarily understand the pedagogy, it was easy to see the difference between the staid DICK AND JANE...

DR. SEUSS 'THE CAT BEHIND THE HAT' Mixed-Media Pigment Print on Canvas Authorized Estate Edition Image Size: 20" x 10" with additional canvas border Limited Edition of 850 Arabic Num...

Oil on canvas Signed and dated in black ink, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Daniel Handal writes: “With ‘Cats in Costume’ I wanted to work on ...