March 8 - June 5, 2016 - In this exhibition twenty recently restored seminal paintings by Weisgard to their original splendor; they will make their public debut. Weisgard won the Caldecott Medal in 1947 for The Little Island, the product of another partnership with Wise Brown. He worked with other authors and wrote a handful of books himself. Original art from Cinderella (1939), Red Light/Green Light (1944), The Little Island (1946), The Golden Egg Book (1947), Pelican Here/Pelican There (1948), The Important Book (1949), and The Funny Bunny Factory (1950), among others, will be on display.
Dates:March 08, 2016 10:00 am to June 05, 2016 04:00 pm
Address: 125 West Bay Road , Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, United States
Phone: (413) 559-6300
Contact:The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Website:http://www.carlemuseum.org/content/current-exhibitions