The Trout Museum of Art is currently hosting the “Golden Legacy: Original Art From 65 Years of Golden Books” exhibit. The curators compiled sixty pieces of artwork for this program.
Here’s more from the organization’s website: “In 1942, the first full year of American involvement in World War II, a groundbreaking line of children’s picture books arrived on store shelves to cheer and comfort a nation and revolutionize the business of juvenile publishing forever. The Western Printing and Lithographing Company of Racine, Wisconsin, the Artist and Writers Guild, and Simon and Schuster made sturdy, highly illustrated and inexpensive children’s books widely available to young readers for the first time. Fueled by the bold application of mass-marketing sales and distribution techniques Golden Books retailed for a fraction of the cost of traditional children’s books and could be found almost anywhere that young parents shopped: at five-and-dimes, drugstores, and supermarkets.”
The illustrations on display come from a wide variety of titles including The Poky Little Puppy, Home For a Bunny, and the Little Red Hen. The closing date has been scheduled for November 5.