Forty One Barking Dogs
Edward Gorey created many spot illustrations for TV Guide magazine. The wide ranging themes of these assignments challenged the versatility of Mr. Gorey's imagination and talent. Sports, Westerns, and...
View ArticleThe House WIth A Clock In Its Walls Movie
The cast for the film adaptation of John Bellairs'The House With A Clock In Its Walls has some additional star power. Kyle MacLachlan has joined previously mentioned stars Jack Black and Kate...
View ArticleBen Wickey
Ben Wickey is an immensely talented young artist, illustrator, and film maker. Mr. Wickey's wondrous animations are set to enhance the upcoming (hopefully sometime soon) documentary about Edward Gorey...
View ArticlePortrait of An Artist Taking a Walk
Portrait of Edward Goreyby Ben WickeyA recently commissioned pen, ink, and watercolor portrait
View ArticleDoll Collector Magazine
The August/September 1990 issue ofDolls - The Collector's Magazine included an article called Give Them A Good Fright by John Darcy Noble. In this essay, the author talks about how 18th & 19th...
View ArticleFine Art Prints, Part 15
On February 5, 2011 we began a discussion on this blog of the various Fine Art Prints created by Edward Gorey. To view the other blog posts regarding these unique pieces of collectible Gorey artwork,...
View ArticleFinding Gorey In Unlikely Places
Edward Gorey was an illustrator for hire whose work often turns up in unusual places. This is an ad promoting the use of insurance professionals from The American College of CLU & ChFC. The add...
View ArticleVintage Gift Giving
This is a vintage ad from Time Magazine, December 1975. In this ad for Waldenbooks, the paperback edition of Amphigorey by Edward Gorey is featured front and center. The description below states that...
View ArticleHoliday Decorating
 Christmas in the Eggplant Hills is one of Edward Gorey's more enigmatic Christmas card designs. Rabbits in plaid shirts are decorating an effigy with the help of a creature of unspecified origin. The...
View ArticleAuction News
On Thursday December 14, Swann Gallery in New York City held its semi-annual Illustration Art Auction which once again included a nice selection of works by Edward Gorey. Six lots, comprising fifteen...
View ArticleDick Cavett Interview
If one pokes around the YouTube universe, you can find several filmed sequences of Edward Gorey being interviewed. All are entertaining and give insights into Mr. Gorey's personality. Of particular...
View ArticleI is for Influence
Author Sue Grafton, an author of a detective novels, passed away on December 28th at the age of 77. Her detective series had an alphabetical theme, beginning with A is for Alibi published in 1982, and...
View ArticleGorey Exhibition
Need ta break from your winter dull drums? Refresh yourself with a visit to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut and take in their exhibition, Gorey's Worlds. The exhibition,...
View ArticleGorey Biography
The new biography of Edward Gorey by author Mark Dery has its cover. Watch for this upcoming publication to arrive in Fall 2018.
View ArticleThe Worsted Monster
The Worsted Monster is an enigmatic work, or works, by Edward Gorey. Begun in the 1950's and never published (or completed?), the first incarnation of The Worsted Monster is a self proclaimed Medieval...
View ArticleA New Book
The Edward Gorey exhibition Gorey's Worlds at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is on display February 10 - March 6, 2018. The exhibition will also be mounted at the Tacoma Art Museum from June 23 -...
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