European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tribute to or. Seuss from doodles to cat in the hat by Jane associated press o americans raised since the 1940s. The name or Souss con tiros an image of thymes and long4h twisters and such Lanc Iju creatures As the Cal in inc hat the of in sox and he Grinch who sole Christmas l ass. Well known is their imaginative creator Codor Seiss go incl. A Dartmouth College graduate incl 0toid University literature student with no formal Arl framing to spent More Nan 60 years cleverly i nil no Wilh pen and Brush and Fine tuning the words Hal would to repealed by children around he world writing Tot children is murder a chapter has to be wiled Down o a paragraph every word has 1o a Ciao once said unlike Iho Sally. Dick and Jane Reading series Hal a Van tally faded lion Ulm entry school sight or. Slinks books with i heir bold primary colors have Yinru Jincy consistent Sellers of nip they were first Pul into print f Hen Central Appeal i Don t i hint or Seuss Ovici walked Down to in Yong says Arnold Lehman director of the bal Mare maj Rotim of Art. Where inc coh bilion a. Souss from then to nov/1 will to on View until Jan. 17. 1983. When it will move on to hew Orleans. The 300 works Hung Low to accommodate school age crowds came from museums As Well As Geisel s private collection. He is run i know if he was writing children s books Lor adults or adult books Lor ," says Lehman crossing the complexity at Godsol s work As an artist Illustrator political Caf Loonis and a Viiar of 45 books thai have sold More than 100 million copies worldwide the show mounted originally in 1986 by the san Diego museum of Art. Did already soon in Pittsburgh and Dallas was designed to highlight Griset s Broad Appeal the evolution of his slyly and Iho painstaking offo i that wont into producing books with Long term Popula Niy and pulitzer prize Cali or Geisel won the Awain 1984. We think of him As says Lehman pointing to a series of Eaily drawings go impossible marshmallow toasters and longhaired animals Wilh multiple knotted tails did t know every Workmo moment of his Hie he was into this kid of zealous although the Baltimore museum deliberately avoids so called children s shows Lehman says the or. Seuss show provided an Opportunity to present an exhibition Elan cup Crince shared by Lols of children Oul there who do wonderful doodles and the or. Seuss retrospective allows youngsters la under land How someone comes to been artist. Who deals with inc real Woritt and who participates in a somewhat less esoteric vein than the Lew artists associated with the museum concept such As Rembrandt or Henri Malisse. However. Lehman is Quick to Point out thai Here Are comparisons to be drawn Between or. Seuss animals and those presented in Picasso s linoleum cutouts on exhibit in the adjoining exhibition Hall. The or. Seui show traces the career of the 83 year old Geisel from commercial artist and political cartoonist to Ilia Best Selling children s author who helped generations of americans learn id love Reading. Don t Start your career when a great depression is also Darling Geisel wrote. You la be surprised at All Iho things you la find yourself by the Lime Geisel had published his first children s Book and to think it Tel i saw ii on Mulberry Syreal in 1937, he had already attracted Tell eolian for a series of advertisements for a Standard Oil o new Jersey Mac Elicide Quick Henry tha fill was a familiar to readers in inc t930s and 40s As to commercials of screaming insects afraid of raid have become to today s children Lehman says. His drawings feature elaborate mechanical setups ladders and wrenches Wilh multiple joints operated by cats or imaginary creatures. Geisel also wove Subtle threads of social consciousness into his work. He was an environmentalist noting the poll inn produced by people throwing old shoes into act Ligon s peal in to Book of thai name. He was a social critic showing poor or. Potter. To crosser and i Doller As he eur flared the Lii Bullions of an automated world he even addressed the arms race in Iho 1984 volume. The butter Bailie Bock. Geisel who was Loo ill to make the rip to Baltimore irom his Home in la Jolia Calil. Turned his pen in 1986 to Iho frustrations of growing older and visiting doctors in you re onry of once ii is a Book or Ilion " or obsolete -., i -1 j the l Sappho some people in Connecticut Aren i Tond a tic Tresi Jem Fanti inn in scene from me homing Attar Page 14 the stars and stripes theodot Seuss Kelsel Atiat by at workmen lit Talasan Otego museum Start for the to Titoyan exhibition in wary Waterb by Nick Ravo new York times t was on veterans Day that Grotano Guy Russo. A former assistant adjuvant in Iho Connecticut National guard first Learned thai Jone Fonda was coming to Wal Orbury to make a movie. Outraged to wrote a letter to the local newspaper. A Lew Days later he had 2so bumper stickers printed. They read i m not fond a Hanoi More than a month later. Tusso has Learned the Power of the press. A is being heralded As tha Leader of a nationwide anti Jane Fonda movement. His bumper Slicker sales Are booming his Telephone rings with Calls from supporters and reporters a demonstration is planned fur january. Russo is stunned by the hubbub and so is Walc Bury. A working class City of 106,000 that has suddenly and . Gained repute As an almost maniacal hotbed of god learing Flag wavers win believe in America right or wrong love in or leave in. Al i did was write a Teller id gel it All my Chest to do \ my duty said Russo a 63-year-old world War ii Veteran. Bull can t believe in the Calls keep coming in i have to Lake my phone of the Hook to go Lohi Friday. A
