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Enrique Chagoya’s The Headache – Gone from Rosenbach, now at The Print Center

Enrique Chagoya spent months working with Cindy Etinger’s studio and Silicon Fine Art Prints to make “The Headache,” a complicated multi-process digital print which is part of the Philagrafika festival. Chagoya’s print — a social commentary about President Obama and his health care headaches — is based on a work owned by the Rosenbach Museum and Library, a print called The Headache by 19th Century caricaturist, illustrator and social satirist George Cruickshank.

Picture Books: Sendak on Sendak and Beyond This Time and Place: Children’s Books in England

Maurice Sendak preliminary design for cover of Where the Wild Things Are (1963), courtesy Rosenbach Museum and Library, © Maurice Sendak I love illustrated books; they’re one of the ancillary pleasures of being around small children. Art historians have lots of books with pictures but they’re not the same. By luck or intention, two exhibitions currently in Philadelphia present a wonderful range of illustrated books for children. Maurice Sendak, illustration from Where the Wild Things Are (1963) © Maurice Sendak The Rosenbach Museum and Library has drawn on it’s archive of the artist’s work to present the major retrospective exhibition, ... More » »