PROVIDENCE, RI.- The Rhode Island School of Design presents the exhibit From Goodnight Moon to Art Dog The World of Clement, Edith and Thacher Hurd through July 23, 2006. This exhibition features original work by artist/illustrator Clement Hurd and his son artist/author Thacher Hurd, in various media. These works show the artistic progression involved in creating a picture book. The beloved creations of this family of authors and illustrators include such children’s classics as The Runaway Bunny (1942), Goodnight Moon (1947), Johnny Lion’s Book (1965), Mama Don’t Allow (1982), and Art Dog (1996). The exhibition also features a life-size, bright red “Brushmobile” used by Art Dog and a mural-size reproduction of the “great green room” from Goodnight Moon. The exhibition was organized by the Shelburne [VT] Museum and was the result of a cooperative effort between the Shelburne Museum and Thacher Hurd.

The RISD Museum houses over 80,000 works of art, ranging from ancient Greek and Roman sculpture to French Impressionist paintings, from Chinese stone and terracotta sculpture to contemporary art in every medium, including textiles, ceramics, glass and furniture. It also serves the general public with a full schedule of special exhibitions, lectures, tours, concerts and other programs. The Museum’s collection is displayed in 45 galleries on three floors, tracing the history of art from antiquity to the 21st century.

Galleries housing Greek vases and coins, Roman frescoes and sculpture, and Etruscan bronzes lead to the Medieval gallery, which includes a 12th-century sculpture from the Third Abbey Church of Cluny, France. A sequence of European galleries follows, with painting, sculpture, and decorative arts ranging from the Renaissance to Neoclassicism.

Highlights of the 19th-century French painting galleries include masterpieces by Delacroix, Corot, Manet, Monet, Cézanne, Rodin and Matisse. American painting of the 19th and early 20th centuries is represented in work by Chase, Heade, Homer, Bellows, Sargent and Cassatt.