Post by virtu on Mar 18, 2010 12:15:41 GMT -8
New Dr. Seuss release.
"Sludge Tarpon"
Edition 850
13 1/4 x 37 x 7
$2195 with free shipping
Artchival Members get 10% off.
Certificate of Authenticity
Really love this piece.
Info Below:
Ted Geisel’s success as an up-and-coming ad man in the late 1920s paved the way for what would become one of his signature ad campaigns for boating lubricants. Officially launched in the spring of 1934, his promotion kicked off with a “Secrets of the Deep” booklet featuring over 25 of Seuss’s uproarious aquatints.
In the early 1930s, Ted Geisel created what he called A Collection of Unorthodox Taxidermy, a menagerie of Seussian animals constructed from real animal beaks and horns. On the heals of that project, Seuss embarked upon a second collection, this time of sea-going creatures, that he ultimately linked to a 1937 advertising promotion at New York’s National Motor Boat Show. This was the debut of his “Seuss Navy,” replete with an Admiral’s Membership Certificate, jigger drinking glasses, and his six re-purposed taxidermy sculptures, which he termed “Marine Muggs.”
Describing Seuss’s 1937 boat show exhibit, a reporter for Yachting wrote, “From the briny depths of the imagination of the famous designer, Dr. Seuss . . . come a collection of the weirdest denizens of the deep ever imagined in the wildest nightmare of a skipper.”
Geisel’s print ad for his famed Sludge Tarpon headlined, “Here’s sludge in your eye!”
Created during Ted’s most prolific sculpting phase, the Sludge Tarpon comes from a rare class of just six “Marine Muggs,” sculpted circa 1934-36, years before appearing in any ad campaign. This was a consistent pattern in Seuss’s creative process, many times creating images and works for his own pleasure and then linking them to future commercial projects.
Now, seventy-five years later, we proudly present Seuss’s Marine Mugg, Sludge Tarpon, as a wall-mounted, hand-painted cast resin sculpture in a limited edition of 850. Faithfully re-created and approved by Dr Seuss’s widow, Mrs. Audrey Geisel, this artwork takes its rightful place as a rare addition to the Seuss Sculpture Collection.
www.virtuartgallery.com/home/dr-seuss
"Sludge Tarpon"
Edition 850
13 1/4 x 37 x 7
$2195 with free shipping
Artchival Members get 10% off.
Certificate of Authenticity
Really love this piece.
Info Below:
Ted Geisel’s success as an up-and-coming ad man in the late 1920s paved the way for what would become one of his signature ad campaigns for boating lubricants. Officially launched in the spring of 1934, his promotion kicked off with a “Secrets of the Deep” booklet featuring over 25 of Seuss’s uproarious aquatints.
In the early 1930s, Ted Geisel created what he called A Collection of Unorthodox Taxidermy, a menagerie of Seussian animals constructed from real animal beaks and horns. On the heals of that project, Seuss embarked upon a second collection, this time of sea-going creatures, that he ultimately linked to a 1937 advertising promotion at New York’s National Motor Boat Show. This was the debut of his “Seuss Navy,” replete with an Admiral’s Membership Certificate, jigger drinking glasses, and his six re-purposed taxidermy sculptures, which he termed “Marine Muggs.”
Describing Seuss’s 1937 boat show exhibit, a reporter for Yachting wrote, “From the briny depths of the imagination of the famous designer, Dr. Seuss . . . come a collection of the weirdest denizens of the deep ever imagined in the wildest nightmare of a skipper.”
Geisel’s print ad for his famed Sludge Tarpon headlined, “Here’s sludge in your eye!”
Created during Ted’s most prolific sculpting phase, the Sludge Tarpon comes from a rare class of just six “Marine Muggs,” sculpted circa 1934-36, years before appearing in any ad campaign. This was a consistent pattern in Seuss’s creative process, many times creating images and works for his own pleasure and then linking them to future commercial projects.
Now, seventy-five years later, we proudly present Seuss’s Marine Mugg, Sludge Tarpon, as a wall-mounted, hand-painted cast resin sculpture in a limited edition of 850. Faithfully re-created and approved by Dr Seuss’s widow, Mrs. Audrey Geisel, this artwork takes its rightful place as a rare addition to the Seuss Sculpture Collection.
www.virtuartgallery.com/home/dr-seuss
