It's a Gorey, Gorey World News & Events of the World Gorey Left Behind |
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news & auctions News & Events The playfully original pen and watercolor illustration 'Tennis', Gorey created for Town & Country magazine was auctioned on Jan 1st. Freeman's Auctions presents 49 lots with 4 original works, rarities such as the two Becketts, hand-colored 'Interpretive Series' cards, and 'The Doubtful Guest' doll on Nov 16 An excellent collection! Enter 'Gorey' in Search, or start with lot 41. Oh yes, a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible [Lot 91] is there as well! Swann Galleries's latest auction results reflects an ever-increasing interest in Gorey's art, but in surprising directions. Journey to the World of Edward Gorey, at the Shoto Museum of Art in Tokyo is a new Gorey House-curated exhibit on tour in Japan. Ashcroft & Moore held their 5th and Last Gorey sale in a series of Gotham Book Mart auctions last Nov. A & M's Gorey Gotham No.4 2022, their third, second, and initial sales provided many surprising behind-the-scenes glimpses. Recommended Books Born to Be Posthumous by Mark Dery, continues to feed speculation about the world Gorey illustrated. From The Comic Journal to the venerable The NY Times Dery's book can help us grasp Gorey's broad appeal. Read our review and interview with Mr. Dery on writing his singular biography. What's Your Favorite Gorey Cover? A worthy question, and in aid of a worthy answer, Pomegranate offers Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design. Visit Amazon or peek at Pomegranate's sample pages, or read our review. Still our favorite: Neumeyer's 'Floating World' This epistolary sojourn continues to inform and surprise. Read reviews for Floating Worlds by the Atlantic Monthly and in The Wall Street Journal by Karen Wilkin. Read our review of Floating Worlds  
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NPR's Gashlycrumb Tinies: Music to the Ears NPR's All Things Considered co-hosts Linda Wertheimer and Noah Adams lovingly recite The Gashlycrumb Tinies from NPR's Edward Gorey obituary page on April 17,2000. A nice interview with Andreas Brown included, in Real Media format. See what else NPR Radio produced about Edward Gorey.  PBS & WGBH presents Mystery! The official PBS Mystery! site [now archived], with a 1996 Gorey interview by Ron Miller. Derek Lamb writes about Gorey's collaboration for the legendary Mystery! animations. And finally a tribute by Animation World magazine to Derek Lamb [1936-2005] which mentions the animation collaboration. Before you go, watch a segment of WGBH's The Rewind about the Gorey animations for Mystery on YouTube. Hamanaka-San, Arigato Housing the largest Gorey collection in Japan, the two Wonderful World of Edward Gorey websites are the creations of Toshinobu Hamanaka. The book by the same name, edited by Mr. Hamanaka, and published by Kawade Shobo in 2002, is a beautiful volume. In Japanese. 
Read more on Edward Gorey in Japan in our East Wing [what follows is a historical reference, links have since expired] What the Doubtful Guest does on stage is everybodys business in Hoipolloi & Theatre Royal Plymouth's production, which ran March 13 thru April 12, 2008. From London, the company toured Liverpool, Ipswitch, then Newcastle. The show was met with enthusiasm from both The Times and The Guardian -- "...a piece of visual theatre that captures all the Victorian pastiche, fantastical imagination and ominous air of Gorey's original." - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian. 
Hoipolloi Artistic Director Shôn Dale-Jones discovered 'Doubtful' while touring the US in 2005. "I went into a children’s bookstore to look for one of Edward Lear's titles, but couldn’t find one. The clerk asked if he was the guy Edward Gorey did some illustrations for. She handed me a collection of Gorey’s books – including Lear’s The Jumblies. Before I knew it I had looked through the whole book and was asking the shop attendant for more Edward Gorey...by the time I left the USA later that month I’d bought every title I could find in every bookstore I walked into. On the plane journey home I kept returning to The Doubtful Guest and got hooked on the world of this illustrated story." Visit Hoipolloi's blog for some snapshots of this memorable production. |
The Edward Gorey House Gorey's residence in Yarmouth Port is now a museum. It's mission: "The Edward Gorey House celebrates and preserves the life and works of Edward Gorey...[and] honors Gorey's passion and concern for animals, raising awareness about local and national animal welfare issues." Gorey's favorite yellow sweater, greatcoat and tennies are on view as well. 
Minneapolis's own Irwin Terry hosts the Goreyana blog, diligently posting interesting Gorey artwork from his collection, with excellent photos. Talk amongst yourselves! 
Antiquariat Bucherwelten provides unparalled access to translated editions, brought to you by Jonas Ploger. Located in Germany. In English and German.
 Gorey Serif Font TrueType font based on the distinctive hand lettering from many of Gorey's books. From Damian Hess, it's quite a delicious, no-cost treat. OgdredWeary by nonDairy Fonts. Complete your collection of Edward Gorey fonts with another no-cost TrueType or MacFont font, inspired by Gorey's The Curious Sofa. 
[what follows is a historical reference, links have since expired] Funeral Consumers Alliance "First you're born, you live a little, and then you die..." To that end, the FCA is here to help, with Gorey's Osbick Bird gracing a handy end-of-life planning kit. Available in spiral bound or PDF download by state. Embrace the inevitable.
Edward Bradford's Edward Gorey: An Illustrated Bibliography as comprehensive a bibliography thats been attempted of Gorey's works, is in the works. (2025 maybe?) Director-Producer Ron Howard wants to bring Gorey's version of Florence Heidi's 'The Shrinking of Treehorn' to screen in his first animated film. (mon pari-Le cheval noir?!) The Doubtful Guest film 'In development hell' The original treatment: "A charming mischievous creature shows up at a family-owned bed & breakfast, and turns the funny family's life upside down." The concept, first announced 2007 by Jim Hensen Company, will hopefully make it to the projection room. It's a lovely idea, after all. |
ELEPHANT HOUSE: or, The Home of Edward Gorey
Photographs and text by Kevin McDermott, sheds new light on Mr. Gorey through his residence, now museum, (a.k.a. 'The Elephant House') in Yarmouth Port. Fifteen etchings and lithos are reproduced. Introduction by John Updike. Published by Pomegranate, Elephant House is in it's 2nd printing. 
Goreyography talks to Kevin about the making of Elephant House. Finally, read our review of Elephant House. [what follows is a historical reference, links have since expired] Visit McDermott's Lost Gotham, an evocative journey back to both the Gotham Book Marts before it finally closed in 2006.  
Gorey Documentary Coming! Five years in the shooting, film maker Christopher Seufert of Mooncusser Productions has produced several award-winning films, and with Kickstarter funding, is working to complete his most challenging project. Visit Seufert's Facebook page to read the latest updates about this most fascinating project. Listen to an engaging interview with Seufert and Gorey's nephew Ken Morton and Gorey himself, with Mindy Todd interviewing in 2014.  [what follows is a historical reference, links have since expired] A voyeuristic view of Gorey's studio as it stood in Yarmouth Port before it was tidied up after his death in 2000. Viewer plugin required and may take some time to load. Worth the wait. Drawn to Illustration The venerable Society of Illustrators in NYC recognizes Edward Gorey for his 'distinguished achievements in the art of illustration' as an 
inductee into its 2012 Hall of Fame, joining the likes of N.C. Wyeth (1974), Ludwig Bemelmens (2012), Maxfield Parrish and Howard Pyle (1975), and Charles Schulz (2013). See how Siobhan Magnus, is always an EGH star! Paint it Black Siobhan! |