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Edward Gorey
(American, 1925 - 2000)
They shot towards the roof and beyond
1973
4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (11.4 × 8.9 cm)
2009.9.2
© The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust
Purchased with the Andrew Sordoni Fund for American Illustration, 2009
On view
Edward Gorey created humorous, curious stories in a series of pictures akin to cartoon strips but in picture-book form. These images provide story-like situations about the mundane and familiar, the obtuse and ambiguous, the coincidental and the fateful with a deliberately detached air. Except for a few books he created without text, most of the artist’s work revels in the combination of visual and word imagery and alliteration.
