AUSTIN, TEXAS.-The Austin Museum of Art presents The Art of Dr. Seuss,
on view through January 15, 2006. Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, began his career in the 1920s as an editorial cartoonist. With his unique artistic vision, he went on to create deft illustrations, modeled sculpture, oil paintings, advertisements, World War II political cartoons, and forty-four children’s books filled with inventive characters and clever humor. Throughout his career, Geisel single-handedly forged a new genre of art somewhere between the Surrealist movement and the inspired nonsense of a child’s doodles. The Art of Dr. Seuss celebrates the life of this American icon and chronicles almost seven decades of work that is uniquely “Seussian.” Additionally, the exhibition includes a selection of illustrations from The Lorax, lent by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum at the University of Texas. The Art of Dr. Seuss is organized by The Chase Group, Northbrook, Illinois, and Art on 5th, Austin, Texas.