COLUMBUS, Ohio Most people today know artist Maurice Sendak as the creator of children s book classics such as “Where the Wild Things Are” and “In the Night Kitchen.” A
Columbus Museum of Art debuts major display featuring over 150 sketches, storyboards and paintings by creator including designs for opera, theater, film, and television
The Columbus Museum of Art has opened a comprehensive exhibit on artist and illustrator Maurice Sendak. “Wild Things are Happening” is the first major retrospective of Sendak's work since his 2012 death and the largest and most complete to date.
THE QUALITY OF ORIGINALITY is often strained in our judgments of artists, be they painters, sculptors or illustrators of children’s books. In a recent profile of Louise Nevelson in the Sunday Times Magazine, the sculptor speaks of her earliest encouragement by an art teacher in grade school: “. . . She held this up [Louise’s drawing of a flower] and said it was the best because it was original. That word was very big to a child. I clocked it; I knew that to be original was what it was all about.”Perhaps the most refreshing impression one took from the recent exhibition of “The Art of Maurice