I am absolutely in love with this image this fine morning. I might just extract myself from my desk, buy a train ticket and a snack cracker and head for NYC.
Golden Legacy: Original Art from 65 Years of Golden Books
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
New York, NY
July 4 – August 28, 2008
View 60 masterpieces of original illustration art by legendary artists like Garth Williams, Feodor Rojankovsky, Tibor Gergely (great emigre artists), Gustaf Tenggren, Martin Provensen, J. P. Miller, and Mary Blair (Disney folk), Leonard Weisgard, Eloise Wilkin, Elizabeth Orton Jones, Richard Scarry, and Hilary Knight.
My favorite Little Golden Book as a wee lass was Little Mommy written and illustrated by Sharon Kane. This little charmingly sexist ditty (Little Mommy stays home with the babies and has questionable lunches alone with the doctor) must have been an absolute torture to my mother who was trying to raise me as a pureblood feminist tomboy. Ever wonder why you never see me in pants? Pure rebellion through and through.
What Golden Book was at your bedside?
Hey Kirsten, Thanks for the heads up to this exhibit in my own backyard! My father worked for Golden Books in the golden age and brought the books home for us … I actually still have some. Some of the others I am still searching for! Maybe they will be there.