Maurice Sendak Signed Lithograph Print 1993 MUSEUM DISPLAYED - 50 Years of Sendak: The Museum Tour Collection

Maurice Sendak Signed Lithograph Print - MUSEUM DISPLAYED
"We Are All In the Dumps with Jack & Guy" 1993
Number 127 of an Edition of 200

Framed and with a Charles Scott Gallery Letter of Authenticity

Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) is of course best known for writing and illustrating "Where The Wild Things Are." He won everything from the Caldecott to the National Book award. This particular print was part of the traveling exhibit collection of his life's work, "Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, 50 Works, 50 reasons."

IT WAS EXHIBITED IN 26 MUSEUMS/EXHIBITS OVER 15 YEARS.

Type: Lithograph on BFK Rives paper
Size: 14 x 19-1/2 inches (sheet)
23 x 27 inches (framed - under acrylic)
Edition: #127/200
Signed: Lower right: Maurice Sendak
Collection: 50 Years of Sendak: The Museum Tour Collection

EXHIBITED:
Animazing Gallery, New York, "Sendak in SoHo," October 1-November 8, 2009;
AFA Gallery, New York, "Maurice Sendak Retrospective," June 9-September 3, 2012;

Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, 50 Works, 50 Reasons, traveling exhibition:
AFA Gallery, New York, June 9-September 3, 2012;
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, California, February 16-April 28, 2013;
Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco, California, May 23-July 7, 2013;
Portland Public Library, Maine, August 2013-July 2014;
Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, Illinois, July 19-September 19, 2014;
Salt Lake City Library, Utah, January 17-March 8, 2015;
Houston Public Library, Texas, March-May 2015;
Nashville Public Library, Tennessee, May-June 28, 2015;
Milwaukee Public Library, Wisconsin, July 11-August 23, 2015;
Toronto Public Library, Canada, December 19, 2015-January 31, 2016;
Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana, February 12, 2016-March 26, 2016;
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, April 9-May 22, 2016;
Phoenix Public Library, Arizona, June 2-July 17, 2016;
Biggs Art Museum, Dover, Delaware, July 30-September 11, 2016;
Syracuse University Art Galleries, New York, September 20-October 23, 2016;
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, November 10, 2016-February 20, 2017;
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, April 1-May 17, 2017;
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida, September 23-December 30, 2017;
Albany County Public Library, Laramie, Wyoming, May 30-July 8, 2017;
East Baton Rouge Public Library, Louisiana, January 16-February 25, 2018;
Metropolitan Library, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 15-July 9, 2019;
Gaston Public Library, North Carolina, December 16, 2019-January 25, 2020;
South Shore Arts, Munster, Indiana, February 14-April 12, 2020;
Fort Worth Public Library, Texas, November 13, 2021-January 31, 2022;
Community Fine Arts Center Rock Springs, Wyoming, September 1-October 8, 2022;
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, March 14-May 12, 2024.

LITERATURE:
J.G. Schiller, D.M.V. David, L.S. Marcus, Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work, New York, 2013, p. 161, illustrated;
M. Sendak, We are all in the dumps with Jack and Guy : two nursery rhymes with pictures, New York, 1993, p. 59, illustrated.

PROVENANCE:
Heritage Auctions: 50 Years of Sendak: The Museum Tour Collection