Dr. Seuss


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The Art of Dr. Seuss - On Permanent display!

Complete collection of the Secret Art

Complete collection of the Illustration Art

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The wildly imaginative creations included in the Secret Art Collection show a previously unseen dimension of Theodor Seuss Geisel's art. These sophisticated and whimsical paintings created for his own pleasure and never before shown to the public will enchant and amaze you. These fantastical images have the inimitable style of Geisel's alter ego Dr. Seuss, frequently depicting outlandish creatures in otherworldly settings.

NEWEST DR. SEUSS RELEASES

SLUDGE TARPON - NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER AT ART on 5TH

Ted Geisel’s success as an up-and-coming ad man in the late 1920s paved the way for what would become one of his signature ad campaigns for boating lubricants. Officially launched in the spring of 1934, his promotion kicked off with a “Secrets of the Deep” booklet featuring over 25 of Seuss’s uproarious aquatints.

In the early 1930s, Ted Geisel created what he called A Collection of Unorthodox Taxidermy, a menagerie of Seussian animals constructed from real animal beaks and horns.  On the heals of that project, Seuss embarked upon a second collection, this time of sea-going creatures, that he ultimately linked to a 1937 advertising promotion at New York’s National Motor Boat Show.  This was the debut of his “Seuss Navy,” replete with an Admiral’s Membership Certificate, jigger drinking glasses, and his six re-purposed taxidermy sculptures, which he termed “Marine Muggs.”
 
Describing Seuss’s 1937 boat show exhibit, a reporter for Yachting wrote, “From the briny depths of the imagination of the famous designer, Dr. Seuss . . . come a collection of the weirdest denizens of the deep ever imagined in the wildest nightmare of a skipper.”
 
Geisel’s print ad for his famed Sludge Tarpon headlined, “Here’s sludge in your eye!” 

Created during Ted’s most prolific sculpting phase, the Sludge Tarpon comes from a rare class of just six “Marine Muggs,” sculpted circa 1934-36, years before appearing in any ad campaign.  This was a consistent pattern in Seuss’s creative process, many times creating images and works for his own pleasure and then linking them to future commercial projects.

Now, seventy-five years later, we proudly present Seuss’s Marine Mugg, Sludge Tarpon, as a wall-mounted, hand-painted cast resin sculpture in a limited edition of 850.  Faithfully re-created and approved by Dr Seuss’s widow, Mrs. Audrey Geisel, this artwork takes its rightful place as a rare addition to the Seuss Sculpture Collection.

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13" H x 37" W x 7" D | Edition Size: 850 | Resin Sculpture

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MONEY FOR THE ARTS - AVAILABLE FOR ORDER NOW

To this day, Theodor Seuss Geisel, or his estate, has never made an original Seuss painting available for sale, except for one.

Professing indifference to wealth, Ted Geisel called money “a necessary evil,” thus giving away much of his.  As agent Herb Cheyette puts it, “A literary and artistic genius not indifferent to the relationship of art and commerce, [Seuss] spent a great deal of thought making certain that his estate would continue to generate income to benefit society.”  

The Dr. Seuss Foundation, established in 1958, has quietly enjoyed a half century of significant gifting, which reflects the universal interests of its namesake.  Today the Dr. Seuss Foundation provides primary support for over one hundred medical, cultural and socially active institutions. 

In 1963, Ted Geisel donated a recent (circa 1962) painting from his La Jolla Birdwoman series to a charity auction benefiting the La Jolla Art Center.  This prized artwork titled Mrs. Norilee Schneelock Poured, Miss Nesselroda Sugared, or Raising Money for the Arts in La Jolla, won the top auction bid of the night, more than was paid for a Cézanne drawing.   It was the one and only time Ted offered one of his paintings for “sale.”

Today, we proudly announce the release of the Raising Money for the Arts print edition.  This hand-pulled serigraph pays homage to patrons who also support the valuable role played by fine art galleries, which make it possible for us to experience art's inspiration each and every day.

To advance Seuss’s legacy of supporting the arts, a second state of Raising Money for the Arts will be created in the future with the intention of raising $250,000 for arts organizations here and abroad.

Raising Money for the Arts finds our two granddames of good intentions elegantly nestled in deco environs, happily doing the important work of promoting the arts.  Dressed in their turn-of-the-century finery, they are reminiscent of a time when the visual arts were not only fast becoming part of the common culture, but also their harbingers, Expressionism, Abstraction and Fantasy, were “like soldiers marching to different drummers.”   New and exciting art forms, increasing public mobility, plus an explosion of exhibition venues, all converged to entice the masses into a newfound love affair with the arts – a 100-year love affair that thrives today under the auspices of patrons, great and small.

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24.5" H x 28" W | Edition Size: 850 | Serigraph on Canvas
$1,695 Opening Price

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ANTHONY DREXEL GOLDFARB - NOW AVAILABLE AT ART on 5TH

While Anthony Drexel Goldfarb (circa 1934) has seen his name recycled by his creator as “Peeping Drexel” in Dr. Seuss’s 1939 The Seven Lady Godivas, its origin can’t be pinpointed to a specific person or influence. Suffice it to say, the name has all the flair of a Seussian invention — a marvelous one-of-a-kind creation, born into a small, ingenious circle of never-before-seen beasts of absurdity.

Anthony Drexel Goldfarb is presented as a wall-mounted, hand-painted, cast resin sculpture with leather ears, in a limited edition of 850. Collectors seeking to complete their Secret Art Taxidermy Series will take great joy in the charm and personality of this work. We look forward to speaking with you about this exceptional collecting opportunity.


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13" H x 9" W x 13" D | Edition Size: 850 | Resin Sculpture

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Newest Dr. Seuss Artwork Available AT art on 5th:

Secret Art

  • Wisdom of the Orient Cat - NOW AT ART on 5th
  • View from a Window of a Rented Beach Cottage
  • Stag at Eve - NOW AT ART on 5th
  • Lion Stroll
  • Gosh! Do I look as old as all that!

Sculptures

  • Sludge Tarpon - NOW AT ART on 5th
  • Anthony Drexel Golfarb - NOW AT ART on 5th
  • Turtle Necked Sea Turtle - Now at ART on 5th
  • Goo-Goo Eyed Tasmanian Wolghast
  • Green Eggs and Ham Bronze Sculpture

Archive Works

  • Raising Money for the Arts - Avaialble to order now!
  • King of the Pond (Yertle the Turtle)
  • The Earth Friendly Lorax
  • Grinch at Mt. Crumpit
  • Ted's Cat

Illustration Art

  • Cat in the Hat Diptych "We looked and then we saw him"
  • Sam I am Diptych
  • Oh, the Stuff you Will Learn! A portion of proceeds from sales of "Oh the Stuff you will Learn" go to Reading Is Fundamental.

Please see below for Sold Out pieces we have in inventory!

    ALL ARTWORK IS READY TO SHIP!
  • A Man Who Has Made an Unwise Purchase
  • A Plethora of Fish
  • An Alley Cat for a Very Long Alley
  • Andulovian Grackler
  • Artist Worrying About His Next Book
  • Cat Carnival in West Venice
  • Cat From the Wrong Side of the Track
  • Cat in the Hat Bronze
  • Elephant Presenting a Flower to a Bird
  • Every Girl Should have a Unicorn
  • Golden Girl
  • Grinch at Mt. Crumpit
  • Hotel Del Coronado
  • I'd Love to go to the Party...
  • Indistinct Cat with Cigar
  • Joseph Katz and His Coat of Many Colors
  • My Petunia Can Lick Your Geranium
  • Pink Tufted Small Beast in a Night Landscape
  • Plethora of Cats
  • Relaxed in Spite of it
  • Singing Cats
  • The Economic Situation Clarified
  • Ted's Cat
  • Tower of Babel
  • Venetian Cat Singing Oh Solo Meow
  • Self-Portait of the Artist as a Young Man Shaving
  • Blue-Green Abelard
  • Tufted Gustard
  • Two Horned Drouberhannis
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (If I can't find a reindeer, I'll make one instead!)
  • The Cat in the Hat - Thing One and Thing Two

Artworks Available at Art on 5th by Dr. Seuss:

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The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss

  • A Man Who Has Made an Unwise Purchase
  • An Alley Cat for a Very Long Alley
  • Artist Worrying About His Next Book
  • Cat Carnival in West Venice
  • Cat Detective in the Wrong Part of Town
  • Cat from the Wrong Side of the Track
  • Elephant Presenting a Flower to a Bird
  • Every Girl Should have a Unicorn
  • Fooling Nobody
  • Freebird
  • Golden Girl
  • Gosh! Do I look as old as all that!
  • Hotel Del Coronado
  • I'd Love to go to the Party...
  • Indistinct Cat with Cigar
  • Joseph Katz and His Coat of Many Colors
  • Joyous Leaping of Uncanned Salmon
  • Manly Art of Self-Defense
  • My Petunia Can Lick Your Geranium
  • Pink Tufted Small Beast in a Night Landscape
  • Plethora of Cats
  • Rather Odd Myopic Woman...
  • Relaxed in Spite of It
  • Self Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Shaving
  • Self Portrait of the Artist Worrying about His Next Book
  • Stag at Eve
  • The Economic Situation Clarified
  • Tower of Babel
  • Venetian Cat Singing Oh Solo Meow
  • View from a Window of a Rented Beach Cottage

The Archive Collection

  • A Plethora of Fish
  • Flower Fish
  • Grinch at Mt. Crumpit
  • Happy Grasshopper on a Mushroom
  • Horton Line Drawing
  • King of the Pond
  • Martini Bird
  • Sawfish with Such a Long Snout (McElligot’s Pool)
  • Sunbathing Bird
  • Ted’s Cat

Bronze Sculptures

  • Grinch Bronze
  • Cat in the Hat Bronze
  • Sam I Am Bronze

Taxidermy Sculptures

  • Goo-Goo Eyed Tasmanian Wolghast
  • Kangaroo Bird
  • Semi-Normal Green Lidded Fawn
  • The Mulberry Street Unicorn
  • Sawfish Sculpture
  • The Andulovian Grackler
  • Blue-Green Abelard
  • Tufted Gustard
  • Turtle-Necked Sea Turtle
  • Two Horned Drouberhannis

Lithographs

  • We looked and then we saw him
  • Sam I am Diptych
  • Oh, the Stuff you Will Learn!
  • Little Cats B, C and A
  • Would you, Could you, in a car?
  • Oh! the Places You'll Go
  • The Sneetches - Star-Belly Friends
  • The Lorax (Book Cover)
  • Yertle The Turtle - Turtle Tower
  • Hop on Pop
  • The Cat in the Hat - Thing One and Thing Two
  • The Cat in the Hat - Up, Up, Up with a Fish
  • The Cat in the Hat - I Like To Eat Cake In A Tub
  • Fox In Socks
  • The Bee Watcher-Watcher Watched The Bee-Watcher
  • Happy Birthday to You! - Cover Illustration
  • Happy Birthday To You! - Cover Illustration Diptych
  • Horton Hears a Who - The Speck Voice was Talking
  • Horton Hears a Who - They've Proved they are Persons
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas! - If I can't find a reindeer...
  • How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (Cover Drawing)
  • How The Grinch Stole Christmas! - If Santa Could Do It..
  • One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
  • The Sneetches and Other Stories - Star-Belly Sneetch Machine
  • Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
  • Yertle The Turtle - Yertle was King of the Pond

Inquire for more info by calling 512.481.1111 or email to info@arton5th.com