More to Life Print

11 X 17 Inches 3-color Offset Lithograph Print Signed The words for this piece come from the great Maurice Sendak. Like most kids, I always liked “Where the Wild Things Are” and his other books. I drew for hours every day so I was most interested in the art but when I grew older I saw what a remarkable writer he was too. I didn’t know anything about him and I always just assumed that any picture book authors were probably friendly, perhaps sentimental, nice people. It wasn’t until 2003 that I heard one of his NPR interviews. That’s when I discovered what a powerful, honest, unsentimental mind he was. NPR still has all of those interviews available and I strongly recommend them if you are the type who enjoys podcasts. They touch on his frustration with parents and teachers, and how he viewed himself as a protector and advocate of children, his atheism, his chronic childhood illnesses, his family and the holocaust, a death he was partly responsible for as a very young child, his devastation at discovering hi