The collection is open to researchers and is accessible through the Rare Book and Special Collections Division Reading Room. There are also 25 items that can be described as reference documents: digitally recorded media programs and inter-office memos and communiqués. This breaks down to 467 books, 89 periodicals, 92 posters and theater-related materials, 147 items of ephemera and seven works of art. The gift of the collection introduced 802 items related to the American author and artist to the Library. Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Set 19 of 50, numbered and signed by Edward Gorey. Gorey created more than 100 works, including “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” “The Doubtful Guest” and “The Wuggly Ump” designed sets and costumes for theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway, including Broadway’s “Dracula” for which he won a Tony a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times and illustrations in books by a wide array of authors from Charles Dickens to Edward Lear, Samuel Beckett, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, H.G.
He donated the items to the Library in an effort to keep the collection “as a single unit, a testament to the appeal and popularity of Edward Gorey’s talent and his unremitting commitment to artistic expression in the literary world.” A gift from Gorey collector and enthusiast Glen Emil, the collection came to the Library’s Rare Book and Special Collections Division in December 2014 with quiet fanfare – probably how the artist himself would have wanted.Įmil began collecting Gorey-related material in 1979, which later became the foundation for the online portal.
Gorey passed away in 2000, but a collection of his work lives on at the Library. (You can see a version of the animation on PBS’s site). The opening sequence was a wonderful animation featuring his work – a winking tombstone, a game of croquet in the rain, a blooming urn, a fainting lady losing her scarf. I was first introduced to Gorey’s work as a kid in the 1980s watching the long-running “Mystery!” series on PBS with my mom. While I would agree that it’s an appropriate word, Gorey’s drawings are something more – odd, whimsical, humorous, magical, mysterious, gloomy, eccentric – all rolled up in delightful pen-and-ink sketches. The work of Edward Gorey has often been described as “macabre,” a word that his friend Alexander Theroux claims the noted author and artist didn’t like. Set 208 of 250, numbered and signed by Edward Gorey.
“Dogear Wryde Postcards: Neglected Murderesses Series,” 1980.
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