LAPL's 'Image of the Child' Exhibit

By Georgia Hardstark -- School Library Journal, 7/10/2008 11:13:00 PM

If you happen to be in L.A., check out an exhibit at the Los Angeles Central Library’s Getty Gallery that’s been billed as a study of the “best picture-book illustrations of the last decade.”

Now through September 14^th, kids and adults will enjoy “Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art,” the first U.S. exhibit devoted to the image of the child in contemporary picture-book art. Visitors will see works from big-name illustrators such as Maurice Sendak, William Steig, and Chris Van Allsburg. .

Flotsam by David Wiesner

Focusing on works from 1997 to 2007, illustrations are grouped in categories based on the formative stages and experiences of childhood (for example, the new child; the child in the family; and the child at school and play).

Organized by the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, NY, and the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, the exhibit was co-curated by art historian Jane Bayard Curley, picture book historian Leonard S. Marcus, and librarian Caroline Ward.

Children Should Be Seen is being shown along with the entire series of original art for the book Stompin’ at the Savoy, a collaboration between artist Richard Yarde and the late author Bebe Moore Campbell.

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