The artist behind the beloved
book series "
Madeline" is in the spotlight at the
New York Historical Society.
"Madeline
in
New York: The Art of
Ludwig Bemelmans" is an exhibit that celebrates
Madeline's 75th anniversary with more than 90 pieces of art.
Although the series is based in
Paris, Bemelmans was living in New York when he wrote and illustrated the books.
"Madeline
is such a special character, she just speaks to me of bravery and
adventure and that can-do
American spirit that we America girls all
aspire to," said curator Jane Bayard Curley.
The collection will be on display through mid-October.
For more information go online to
NYhistory.org.
- See more at:
http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/news/212839/-madeline--exhibit-comes-to-new-york-historical-society/#sthash.NLjpDIR9.dpuf
The artist behind the beloved book series "Madeline" is in the spotlight at the New York Historical Society.
"Madeline
in New York: The Art of Ludwig Bemelmans" is an exhibit that celebrates
Madeline's 75th anniversary with more than 90 pieces of art.
Although the series is based in Paris, Bemelmans was living in New York when he wrote and illustrated the books.
"Madeline
is such a special character, she just speaks to me of bravery and
adventure and that can-do American spirit that we America girls all
aspire to," said curator Jane Bayard Curley.
The collection will be on display through mid-October.
For more information go online to
NYhistory.org.
- See more at:
http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/news/212839/-madeline--exhibit-comes-to-new-york-historical-society/#sthash.NLjpDIR9.dpuf
The artist behind the beloved book series "Madeline" is in the spotlight at the New York Historical Society.
"Madeline
in New York: The Art of Ludwig Bemelmans" is an exhibit that celebrates
Madeline's 75th anniversary with more than 90 pieces of art.
Although the series is based in Paris, Bemelmans was living in New York when he wrote and illustrated the books.
"Madeline
is such a special character, she just speaks to me of bravery and
adventure and that can-do American spirit that we America girls all
aspire to," said curator Jane Bayard Curley.
The collection will be on display through mid-October.
For more information go online to
NYhistory.org.
- See more at:
http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/news/212839/-madeline--exhibit-comes-to-new-york-historical-society/#sthash.NLjpDIR9.dpuf
The artist behind the beloved book series "Madeline" is in the spotlight at the New York Historical Society.
"Madeline
in New York: The Art of Ludwig Bemelmans" is an exhibit that celebrates
Madeline's 75th anniversary with more than 90 pieces of art.
Although the series is based in Paris, Bemelmans was living in New York when he wrote and illustrated the books.
"Madeline
is such a special character, she just speaks to me of bravery and
adventure and that can-do American spirit that we America girls all
aspire to," said curator Jane Bayard Curley.
The collection will be on display through mid-October.
For more information go online to
NYhistory.org.
- See more at:
http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/news/212839/-madeline--exhibit-comes-to-new-york-historical-society/#sthash.NLjpDIR9.dpuf
The artist behind the beloved book series "Madeline" is in the spotlight at the New York Historical Society.
"Madeline
in New York: The Art of Ludwig Bemelmans" is an exhibit that celebrates
Madeline's 75th anniversary with more than 90 pieces of art.
Although the series is based in Paris, Bemelmans was living in New York when he wrote and illustrated the books.
"Madeline
is such a special character, she just speaks to me of bravery and
adventure and that can-do American spirit that we America girls all
aspire to," said curator Jane Bayard Curley.
The collection will be on display through mid-October.
For more information go online to
NYhistory.org.
- See more at:
http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/news/212839/-madeline--exhibit-comes-to-new-york-historical-society/#sthash.NLjpDIR9.dpuf
The artist behind the beloved book series "Madeline" is in the spotlight at the New York Historical Society.
"Madeline
in New York: The Art of Ludwig Bemelmans" is an exhibit that celebrates
Madeline's 75th anniversary with more than 90 pieces of art.
Although the series is based in Paris, Bemelmans was living in New York when he wrote and illustrated the books.
"Madeline
is such a special character, she just speaks to me of bravery and
adventure and that can-do American spirit that we America girls all
aspire to," said curator Jane Bayard Curley.
The collection will be on display through mid-October.
For more information go online to
NYhistory.org.
- See more at:
http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/news/212839/-madeline--exhibit-comes-to-new-york-historical-society/#sthash.NLjpDIR9.dpuf
To mark the centenary of the children’s book author and illustrator
stepping into Gotham, the New-York Historical Society opened
Madeline in New York: The Art of Ludwig Bemelmans earlier this month. In conjunction with the exhibition, illustrator
Adrienne Ottenberg created
a map of “Bemelmans’ New York.”
Madeline, the smallest of the “twelve little girls in two straight
lines” who lived in “an old house in Paris that was covered in vines,”
was born in Manhattan. In Pete’s Tavern on Irving Place in 1938,
Ludwig Bemelmans scrawled those first rhyming lines that would introduce his petite heroine of the
Madeline books.
Ludwig
Bemelmans, “And sometimes they were very sad” from Madeline (Simon
& Schuster, 1939), Watercolor and gouache (Kendra and Allan Daniel
Collection, © Ludwig Bemelmans)
Bemelmans, born of a German
mother and Belgian father, arrived in New York City in 1914, passing
his first night stranded on Ellis Island after his dad forgot to meet
him. To mark the centenary of the children’s book author and illustrator
stepping into Gotham, the New-York Historical Society opened
Madeline in New York: The Art of Ludwig Bemelmans earlier this month. In conjunction with the exhibition, illustrator
Adrienne Ottenberg created
a map of “Bemelmans’ New York.”
