30th Anniversary of E.L. Saper Galleries Showcases Dr. Seuss

Downtown East Lansing’s Saper Galleries is celebrating 30 years of business with its “The Art of Dr. Seuss” exhibit.

According to excerpts from the article:

For his 30th anniversary show, Roy Saper wanted big fun. He also wanted to showcase an artist everybody knows and nobody knows. The result is “The Art of Dr. Seuss,” a touring exhibit authorized by the estate of Dr.Seuss that kicked off Sunday in East Lansing. Of course, the show salutes Theodore Geisel, AKA Dr. Seuss, as the subversive fantasist who liberated children’s books from the conformist blahs of Dick and Jane. But the exhibit also goes outside the margins to put Geisel into context as an advertising man, editorial cartoonist, magazine artist, wartime propagandist and moonlighting painter.

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