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INTERIOR ART BY HILARY KNIGHT FOR ROBERT KRAUS'S THE GOOD MOUSEKEEPER. Archive of seventeen double-page interior drawings for Robert Kraus's The Good Mousekeeper
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INTERIOR ART BY HILARY KNIGHT FOR ROBERT KRAUS'S THE GOOD MOUSEKEEPER.
Archive of seventeen double-page interior drawings for Robert Kraus's The Good Mousekeeper (New York: Windmill Books, 1977), pen-and-ink with second color overlays, each 250 x 380 mm, some discoloring of text glued to illustration board; and tears and creases of tissue guards with minor loss.
WITH: Robert Kraus's dummy; inventory of the artwork; and a copy of the finished hard cover book signed by Knight.
"One of my favorite books!" says Mr. Knight. Robert Kraus was a New Yorker cartoonist before he founded his own children's book publishing house when funds provided by Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society legislation greatly increased the demand for picture books. He called on his cronies at The New Yorker such as Charles Addams and William Steig (for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble to contribute to his new juvenile line. He illustrated many of his own books including the last of the Nutshell Library series, that for Easter. Mr. Knight greatly enjoyed working with him. The dummy Robert Kraus provided for The Good Mousekeeper is a fine indicator of how he himself approached the picture book. "I followed his ideas fairly closely," Mr. Knight admits. But not too closely: he greatly expanded on those simple sketches and gave every little mouse its own distinctive personality. It should be noted that the entire book was drawn on versos of blue line proofs of The Golden Picture Dictionary (1976). "There was a good reason to re-use those pages," he explains, "excellent paper to begin with thin middle third layer of metal that kept paper from warping and tearing."
WITH: Robert Kraus's dummy; inventory of the artwork; and a copy of the finished hard cover book signed by Knight.
"One of my favorite books!" says Mr. Knight. Robert Kraus was a New Yorker cartoonist before he founded his own children's book publishing house when funds provided by Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society legislation greatly increased the demand for picture books. He called on his cronies at The New Yorker such as Charles Addams and William Steig (for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble to contribute to his new juvenile line. He illustrated many of his own books including the last of the Nutshell Library series, that for Easter. Mr. Knight greatly enjoyed working with him. The dummy Robert Kraus provided for The Good Mousekeeper is a fine indicator of how he himself approached the picture book. "I followed his ideas fairly closely," Mr. Knight admits. But not too closely: he greatly expanded on those simple sketches and gave every little mouse its own distinctive personality. It should be noted that the entire book was drawn on versos of blue line proofs of The Golden Picture Dictionary (1976). "There was a good reason to re-use those pages," he explains, "excellent paper to begin with thin middle third layer of metal that kept paper from warping and tearing."