The Original Art Exhibit 2024 at the Museum of American Illustration

Image added February 2, 2025

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"The Original Art" is an annual exhibition of original children's book illustration. It is on display in the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators in New York. The 2024 show will be closing on February 1. Here are some of the pieces on display.

Exactly as Planned
Tao Nyeu

K Is In Trouble
Gary Clement

Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!: The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving Invention
Nancy Carpenter

Puss in Boots
Fred Marcellino

Time to Make Art
Jeff Mack

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Fred Marcellino's Book Cover for Thomas Pynchon's Slow Learner

Slow Learner is the self-deprecatory title of Thomas Pynchon's 1984 collection of his early short fiction. Fred Marcellino's cover illustration depicts a fountain pen seated on a bicycle. The background is airbrushed with the bicycle added as a collage element. The bicycle appears off center over toward the right to allow the background to wrap around the spine of the the book.

Fred Marcellino
Original art
Slow Learner (1984) by Thomas Pynchon

Fred Marcellino
Swann Galleries January 24, 2013
20th Century Illustration
Sale 2300 Lot 219

First Edition

https://www.secondeditionaustin.com/listing/528007650/first-edition-slow-learner-by-thomas

Note:  Longtime readers may be wondering about the status of my anticipated interview with Thomas Pynchon. I'm still playing hard to get.


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