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Golden Legacy: Original Art from 75 Years of Golden Books

January 19, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - March 30, 2022 @ 8:00 pm

America’s beloved Little Golden Books were first released in 1942 and sold
over 1.5 million copies within five months. The books were originally
written and illustrated by the Artists and Writers Guild, printed by
Western Printing, and published by Simon & Schuster. The first twelve books
included:
Three Little Kittens, Bedtime Stories, The Alphabet from A to Z, Mother
Goose, Prayers for Children, The Little Red Hen, Nursery Songs, The Poky
Little Puppy, The Golden Book of Fairy Tales, Baby’s Book, The Animals of
Farmer Jones, and This Little Piggy.
The company used strategic marketing, a uniform size and look, a modest
selling price (25 cents), and captivating illustrations to sell Little
Golden Books. By the late 1940s, Little Golden Books sought out
illustrators awarded The American Library Association’s Caldecott Medal to
add prestige to the books, which were not endorsed by librarians. The first
Caldecott illustrator was Elizabeth Orton Jones who created artwork for
Little Red Riding Hood.
Other Caldecott award-winning illustrators through the years included:
Alice and Martin Provensen, Leonard Weisgard, Feodor Rojankovsky, Trina
Schart Hyman, and David Diaz. Work by these artists is included in the
traveling exhibition at The Gallery at Penn College, as well as work by
other prestigious Little Golden Books illustrators, including: Tibor
Gergely, Elizabeth Orton Jones, Eloise Wilkin, Aurelius Battaglia, Sheilah
Beckett, Garth Williams, Mary Blair, Jack Kent, Richard Scarry, Gertrude
Elliot, Corinne Malvern, Jan Pfloog, A.Birnbaum, Mary Blair, J.P.Miller,
Gustaf Tenggren, Bob Staake, Dan Yaccarino, Hilary Knight, Annie Won,
Nicola Slater, and Brigette Barrager.
This exhibit was curated by Leonard Marcus, author of Golden Legacy: The
Story of Golden Books, and showcases 65 original illustrations. It is the
most extensive public showing of original illustration art from American
publishing’s best loved and most consequential picture-book series, Little
Golden Books.
This exhibition was organized by the National Center for Children’s
Illustrated Literature, Abilene, Texas.
Visithttp://gallery.pct.edu for exhibit details, events, and hours.
Please visit our Continuity of Operations
https://www.pct.edu/covid-19/reopening page for current guidelines before
visiting.

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Start:
January 19, 2022 @ 2:00 pm
End:
March 30, 2022 @ 8:00 pm
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