Despite being a fairly avid Dr. Seuss fan, somehow I’d never heard about his escapades in taxidermy. But, what an amazing collection! Back in the 1930′s the good doctor decided to play with mixed-media sculptures, and since his father was a superintendent at the Forest Park Zoo, Seuss actually collected beaks, antlers and horns from deceased animals and used them in his work. So what kind of imaginary animals did Dr. Seuss hunt? The big game below include the Adoluvian Grackler, the Two Horned Drouberhannis, the Mulberry Street Unicorn and a Sawfish. Best of all, you can actually purchase that and other work here! Link via Neatorama.
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And little Cindy-loo Who, who was no more than two. She hangs in the library next to Horton…boo hoo.
posted by Sheldon Siegel on 9-18-2006 at 11:36 am
I love it!
posted by Mangesh on 9-18-2006 at 11:54 am
Seeing that stuff reminds me of this link featuring skeletal renderings of cartoon characters by Michael Paulus — I’d love to get some of this artwork one day. Spooky, but neat.
posted by Sandy on 9-18-2006 at 4:37 pm
that’s hilarious Sandy…
posted by Mangesh on 9-18-2006 at 4:40 pm
I wish they had one of a Bofa. I had one on my sofa. Some are nice, but he was not!
posted by Ed Hands on 8-21-2007 at 2:42 pm
I’m one of those who thinks, “Okay, anything that smiles that much after it’s dead is just plain wrong!” It’s almost like seeing the head of Big Bird or Kermit mounted on the wall. Icky!
posted by Larissa on 8-22-2007 at 6:14 pm
I actually saw all of this stuff at the Dr Seuss exhibit at the Austin Museum of Art about a year ago. They had all of his original lorax illustrations along with some of his bigger paintings…. it was really really cool. The taxidermy business kinda creeped me out but all was very interesting upon close examination.
posted by Christie on 8-26-2007 at 7:17 pm
interesting. I just saw one of these on the Antiques Roadshow yesterday. It was appraised at $25,000, if I remember correctly
posted by Clotho on 1-5-2009 at 2:39 pm