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Mixed-Media Pigment Print on Archival Canvas
Authorized Estate Edition

Image Size: 36” x 26” with additional canvas border

Limited Edition of 850 Arabic Numbers
99 Patrons’ Collection
155 Collaborators’ Proofs
5 Hors d’Commerce
2 Printer's Proofs

Adapted posthumously from the circa 1935 painting and published between 1935 and 1941 in a series of Thomas D. Murphy Company promotional calendar blotters. 

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This remarkable work was originally conceived in a series of paintings completed for the Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company. Although Murphy’s owners were not the first to approach Dr. Seuss in the 1930s to commission artwork for a calendar (a mainstay of pop culture at the time), they were the only people successful in getting him to produce twenty-four artworks to be used in promotional calendars between 1935 and 1941.

Today, Dr. Seuss calendar cards are extremely rare and difficult to find, making this one of the most intriguing “lost” Dr. Seuss projects of the 20th century. 

Ted Geisel has wrapped his Seussian wit and humor around an instantly relatable and timeless message - no matter how old you are, at one point in your life, you have been told you look like your mother, father, aunt…or George!

Whether a proud parent, an expecting couple, a son or a daughter, we all come from somewhere and our family shapes who we are or who we want to become.  The pride and joy associated with our own family, or the new roots we may plant, are celebrated here with a nod and a wink from the good doctor.