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Sunday, May 25, 2025

My Copy of Insectopolis by Peter Kuper

I stopped by the Society of Illustrators on Thursday night to attend the opening reception for the new book and exhibition Insectopolis: A Natural History.

The artist, Peter Kuper, brought along a rubber stamp and colored pencils for book signing during the event. The stamp has an image of a butterfly with the artist's name. Here is the copy that he signed and embellished to me:

Here he is signing a copy of his book:

Peter Kuper proudly holds his latest published work:

Kuper's backstory:

The exhibition is on the second floor:

The near end of the exhibition hall . . .

. . . and the far end:

The exhibition has original drawings and color prints:

The Rose Main Reading Room is in the New York Public Library:

Butterflies:

Vladimir Nabokov, entomologist and author of Lolita:

Rachel Carson, the author of Silent Spring:

Charles Henry Turner:

Charles Darwin:

The men's room door:

The stairwell:

The exhibition "Insectopolis: A Natural History" will be on display through September 20 at the Society of Illustrators in New York.

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Saturday, April 22, 2023

Ronald Searle: Great Vegetable City

The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970. Ronald Searle's original lithograph Great Vegetable City predates that by a year. His print of a giant winged insect feeding atop city buildings capped with green sprouts is evidently intended as an environmental statement. We must never live outside of harmony with nature. That's my interpretation; I couldn't tell you what Searle was thinking.