In The East Gallery
The Picture Book Made New: Margaret Wise Brown and Her Illustrators
March 29 - July 10, 2005
A pivotal figure in the evolution of the picture book, Margaret Wise Brown authored Goodnight Moon, Runaway Bunny, and other groundbreaking books for the very young; championed the careers of a generation of illustrators; and, by cross-fertilizing ideas drawn from progressive education and the modernist avant-garde, transformed the picture book into a vibrant contemporary art form. The Eric Calre Museum is delighted to exhibit the largest selection of art from Brown's
books ever assembled, including works by Clement Hurd, Leonard Weisgard, Garth Williams, Esphyr Slobodkina, Ylla, Tibor Gergely, the Provensen's, and others.
This exhibition has been made possible in part by generous support from HarperCollins Publishers.
In The East Gallery
Painter and Poet: The Wonderful World of Ashley Bryan
July 23 - November 6, 2005
Artist Statement
I can't remember a time when I have not been drawing and painting. In kindergarten, when I learned the alphabet and then drew the pictures for each letter, it was a wonderful experience because the teacher said I had published a book when I reached the end and sewed it together. Because of the encouragement I received as a child, in school and at home, I continued doing those books. I don't know how much those experiences were actually behind what I'm doing now in a direct sense, but it was the spirit in which it was opened to me, that in which I really believed.
-Ashley Bryan
This exhiibition has been made possible in part by generous support from Antheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing.
In The East Gallery
Picturing the World: The Art of Alice and Martin Provensen
November 19, 2005 - March 12, 2006
In the forty-three years they worked together, Alice and Martin Provensen illustrated fifty-one books, including beloved Golden Book favorites and Caldecott award winning, The Glorius Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, July 25, 1909.
They met in 1943 working at the animation department of the Walter Lantz Studio, creator of the "Woody Woodpecker" cartoons, the experience taught them the advantages of making art collaboratively. This exhibit will showcase how working so closely over the years the Provensen's styles became indistinguishable.
This exhibition has been made possible in part by generous support from Random House / Golden Books Young Readers Group