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Don Giovanni Program
Did Edward Gorey ever sleep? After more than 40 years of actively searching for pieces created by Mr. Gorey it is still possible to run across an unfamiliar item with alarming frequency. This wonderful...
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Happy Birthday Edward Gorey!
The Birthday Boy is Edward Gorey,who would have turned 94 today!
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2019 Edward Gorey House Exhibition
Take the furs out of cold storage, strap on your wooden leg, gas up the Pierce Arrow motor car, and get ready to head to the Edward Gorey House on Thursday April 11th for the opening of the 2019...
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The Doubtful Guest Inspires Music
On Sunday April 14, the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra will premier a new work inspired by Edward Gorey's timeless book The Doubtful Guest. The Doubtful Guest has been created by composer in residence...
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Mark Dery Lecture
Mark Dery, author of Born To Be Posthumous, has been giving presentations about Edward Gorey in various locals. If you are unable to attend Mr. Dery in person, you can sit in on the lecture he gave at...
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A Winter's Project
What to do when the weather turns cold and the evenings get dark early? How about a Gorey-themed art project? A visit to the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis last fall was the inspiration for these...
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2019 Edward Gorey House Exhibition
Next week begins a cavalcade of events at The Edward Gorey House with the opening of the 2019 exhibition entitled Hippity Wippity, Edward Gorey and the Language of Nonsense. The Cape Cod Times...
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Auction News
Original works by Edward Gorey continue to do well at auction, and some pieces do amazingly well. Heritage Auctions sold this TV Guide color piece (published February 6, 1988) for $15,000.00 (including...
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Edward Gorey's Adornments
Edward Gorey had a flamboyant personal style. From this college days, when he painted his toenails and sauntered around in open toed sandals, to his working days in New York when he draped his 6' 3"...
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Goreyosity Shop Auction
"What are you going to do with all your stuff when you die?"When you reach a certain age, or have accumulated a certain amount of possessions, this question will come up in conversation with increasing...
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Balkan Sobraine Cigarettes
Introduced in The Curse of the Blue Figurine, Professor Roderick Childermass, the erasable elderly neighbor and unlikely friend of young Johnny Dixon was one of John Bellairs' more colorful...
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Auction News
Swann Auction Galleries held their semi-annual Illustration Art Auction on Tuesday June 4, 2019 (to view the complete catalog, go to...
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TV Guide Soap Opera Artwork
The Illustration Art auction that took place last week Swann Auction Galleries had a wonderful selection of works by Edward Gorey. Lot #138 was a delightful full color painting that appered in the May...
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The Shrinking of Treehorn, The Movie
The Shrinking of Treehorn, the Edward Gorey illustrated 1971 book by Florence Parry Heide is under construction to appear as a feature length film by Imagine Entertainment. Director Ron Howard slated...
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Early Gorey Artwork Found
Twenty six drawings are put in a box and forgotten, only to be found decades later. What sounds like the beginning of a tale by Edward Gorey is actually the history of a collection of early works by...
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Edward Gorey, Movie Reviewer
Edward Gorey went to movies. A lot of movies. All kinds of movies. He both loved to watch and playfully disparage films and the people who made them. In what can only be called a stroke of genius,...
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Demon Cyclist Artwork
The Broken Spoke by Edward Gorey was published in 1976 by Dodd, Mead and Co. Before its publication, selections from the book's 30 drawings were published as a six page spread in the June 1976 issue of...
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The Mourning Fan
The Mourning Fan, or Meanwhile and Elsewhere is a little known book by Edward Gorey that until now has only appeared in the literary omnibus Antaeus in1990. The story consists of thirty verses, each...
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Edward Gorey Inspired Theater
If you reside in St. Louie and are looking for a little mid morning diversion for your children between now and Halloween, you can visit a local library where the Storytime Theater will present A...
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