edward gorey
He was interviewed on Tribute To Edward Gorey, an hourlong community cable television show produced by artist and friend Joyce Kenney. [1]
The macabre, yet merry world of Edward Gorey has provided the backdrop for MYSTERY! [2]
Editor’s note: Edward Gorey died at a Cape Cod, Mass., hospital Saturday after suffering a heart attack earlier in the week. [3]
Find out at the Edward Gorey Marketplace. [4]
The Edward Gorey House is pleased to announce the 2008 opening on Thursday, April 17th and running though December 21, 2008. [5]
For more information on Edward St. John Gorey, visit Britannica.com. [6]
In later years he illustrated many children’s books by John Bellairs, as well as books in several series begun by Bellairs and continued by other authors after his death. [1]
In this and later books such as The Hapless Child (1961) and The Gashlycrumb Tinies (1962), his arch nonsense verse and mock-Victorian prose accompany pen-and-ink drawings of beady-eyed, blank-faced individuals in Edwardian costume whose dignified demeanour is undercut by silly, often macabre events. [6]
He has also done illustrations for hundreds of books by other authors. [7]
Celebrate Edward Gorey’s Children’s Books with a visit to our exhibition of original works by Edward Gorey for his own children’s books and illustrations he created for many other authors. [5]
Pity the poor books editors in the 1950s when confronted with yet another manuscript by the persistent Edward Gorey. [3]
A truly prodigious and original artist, Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000), gave to the world over one hundred works, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest and The Wuggly Ump; prize-winning set and costume designs for innumerable theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway; a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times, and in books by a wide array of authors from Charles Dickens to Edward Lear, Samuel Beckett, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, Florence Heide and many others. [8]
He studied at Harvard University and worked as an illustrator before publishing his first children’s book, The Doubtful Guest, in 1957. [6]
He is typically described as an illustrator, but this merely scratches the surface. [...] Although he would frequently state that his formal art training was “negligible,” Gorey studied art for one semester at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943, eventually becoming a professional illustrator. [1]
Sources:
[1] Edward Gorey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] MYSTERY!: Edward Gorey
[3] Salon People | Edward Gorey
[4] Goreyography
[5] Edward Gorey House
[6] Edward Gorey: Definition from Answers.com
[7] Edward Gorey Bibliography
[8] Biography of Edward Gorey