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Design created by Maurice Sendak for the incomplete comic opera by Wolfgang Mozart, The Goose of Cairo. In the opera, Biondello rescues his imprisoned love, Celidora, by hiding in an enormous goose, just as the Greeks hid in the Trojan horse.
The goose's "Egyptian" appearance was inspired by Elizabeth Taylor's costumes in Cleopatra.
Seen in the exhibit "Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak" at the Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art.
Crude beginnings of the nose - wire nose shape put in place and masking taped to a random page in a paper. Then balls of newspaper and more masking tape to build up the main wide part of the nose.
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Where the Wild Things Are lead Max Records incognito.
The CJM was the host of the Where the Wild Things Are Premiere afterparty, a benefit for 826 Valencia.
Photo: Trish Tunney © 2009
Rose Gasner, wife of Larry Chertoff, with Perry Lerner and Honorary Trustee Lenni Steiner, and Larry Chertoff.
Photo credit: Susan Beard Design
Rosenbach Museum & Library
Margery and Frank Cooper explore the Maurice Sendak Gallery. The current exhibition Grace Notes: A Sendakian Rhapsody, on view through August 7, explores Sendak’s musical influences.
Photo credit: Susan Beard Design
Rosenbach Museum & Library
Ordering pizza after testing out the head-support. Possibly the worst idea I've had in a while (the support method, not the pizza). It's a hard hat, gaffataped and padded into a box, which then later had a circle of styrofoam on top to fit snugly into the top of the head. The head then pretty much just sat on top of this whole thing. After a few hours though, it wasn't doing wonders for my neck!
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Testing the body, and the support system - like braces strung over the shoulders (which were later padded) and tied to the back and front of the body.
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Alexander's nose was then shaped from a mixture of some large blobs of newspaper, some of the wire mesh, a bunch of play doh and half a disposable plate for the top lip! This was then used as the structure that I could plaster over.
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At my friend Angie's house, with her kidlets and their toys.
We had a nice visit this afternoon. It really was good to see her, but I won't lie...it was hard. Her two pregnancies coincided with my last two, but both of hers resulted in beautiful children. Whereas mine ended with a distinct lack of children. Thank gawd I've got the little man.
Shaped the top and bottom of the wire tube to form the top of the head shape, and the bottom lip which will rest on my shoulders.
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Max, Moishe, Bernard and Goat Boy. I have the missing 3 which are still in sealed un-opened boxes. I will get out one day
Rosenbach Museum & Library Honorary Trustee David Rosenbach Sackey, grand-nephew of A.S.W. Rosenbach and his brother Philip, and Renee Sackey.
Photo credit: Susan Beard Design
Rosenbach Museum & Library
Finally finished the entire head - took a few (3-4 mainly) layers of plaster to get a strong base. At this point I made the mistake of trying to move the table, and realised just how heavy the whole thing was.
Hoping that once it dries and the water disappears, it would be a lot lighter - I think there were about 3 full bowls of water in that material that had to evaporate!
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Finally finished the fiddly and nerve-wracking horns. Also plastered the ear 'bases' so that they would dry solid by the next evening.
At this point the horns weighed a ton - soggy wet plaster with material on wire. Definitely nervous at the thought of the head not being able to support them at this point.
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Paper mache-ing the head with a paper with an article about where the wild things are (the movie).
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I kept walking into the kitchen and thinking that Jeni was cooking crawfish. Did double takes numerous times. KW's hair was made from twine (sand coloured) then dyed in the sink, using lots of red and brown dye (though there was a point where espresso was used to get a darker brown colour - gave the hair a pretty bizarre smell).
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Pictured: Isaac Stanford (L), Teacher, Cedar Brook Middle School, Aletheia Donahue (Center), Drexel Medical Student, and Fashion Designer Kocayne Givner (R).
Photo by: Carolyn Ballen Stanish
On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at The Ritz East, the Rosenbach Museum & Library held a benefit and special advance screening of the highly anticipated film, Where the Wild Things Are, the Warner Bros. live-action adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Caldecott-winning picture book of the same name. Where the Wild Things Are is a classic story about childhood and the places we go to figure out the world we live in.
The Philadelphia museum has a close, longstanding relationship with Maurice Sendak and is the sole repository of Sendak’s original artwork. All proceeds from this exclusive fundraising event support programs and exhibitions at the Rosenbach Museum & Library.
Visit www.rosenbach.org to learn more about the museum and the Maurice Sendak Collection.
Applying paper mache to the KW head - at least two layers, inside and out. Water and flour (5:1 water:flour mix, then boiled until it was pasty... and stirred constantly). Add top quality free newspapers from around town to taste.
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Walking in the NYC Village Halloween Parade
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Painted the 'ridges' on the horns with a brown pen... later added brown chalk and smudged it all over to create a mottled effect. The base colour was a suitable light shade from Home Depot!
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Another friendly helper Capsule Monster, Miclas is an alien from the Planet Buffalo who helps Ultra Man defeat... hey, wait a second. isn't he one of The Wild THings? Where's Maurice Sendak when you need him?
The ears were then made from the same wireframe and tied on with wire - curved too, which gave them a bit of stability. At this point, hands and arms are shredded from all the sharp wire edges!
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Pictured from Left to Right: Ralph Muller, CEO, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Peter Muller, Senior Project Leader, Independence Blue Cross, Derick Dreher, Director, Rosenbach Museum & Library, Lenni Steiner, Trustee, Rosenbach Museum & Library, and Arthur Spector, Trustee, Rosenbach Museum & Library. [Arthur Spector resides in Bryn Mawr, other attendees pictured reside in Philadelphia].
Photo by: Carolyn Ballen Stanish
On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at The Ritz East, the Rosenbach Museum & Library held a benefit and special advance screening of the highly anticipated film, Where the Wild Things Are, the Warner Bros. live-action adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Caldecott-winning picture book of the same name. Where the Wild Things Are is a classic story about childhood and the places we go to figure out the world we live in.
The Philadelphia museum has a close, longstanding relationship with Maurice Sendak and is the sole repository of Sendak’s original artwork. All proceeds from this exclusive fundraising event support programs and exhibitions at the Rosenbach Museum & Library.
Visit www.rosenbach.org to learn more about the museum and the Maurice Sendak Collection.
Sendak painted this mural in 1961 for Larry and Nina Chertoff, whose parents were friends of Sendak and his lifelong partner Dr. Eugene Glynn.
Seen in the exhibit "Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak" at the Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art.
The head shape was made from two hoola hoops gaffa-taped together. Then the same wire frame mesh was applied to form a kind of sphere for the back of the head, and a flatter surface on the front for the face and top lip.
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Derick Dreher, Director, Rosenbach Museum & Library, with Margery and Frank Cooper. Mr. Cooper is a partner at Duane Morris LLP.
Photo credit: Susan Beard Design
Rosenbach Museum & Library
Action shot!!! Paper mache-ing the inside of the head.
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Adding the nose which was made from foam, later to be covered with material and sewn and glued to the face.
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Luckily Alexander is pretty skinny, so I was able to get away with not doing any padding in the arms or legs - effectively just having a top-half body-suit thing...
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This was one of my favorite childhood books--"Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present". by Charlotte Zolotow, with pictures by the late, great Maurice Sendak.
More than "Where the Wild Things Are," I recall my Mom reading me this book again and again, while I identified with the sharp-witted girl who, with Mr. Rabbit, put together a lovely present for the girl's mother. This isn't a scan of my copy, but I found it for a dime at a thrift store.
...from a hidden pool of blue and pink.
Where the wild things are - Large and on Black
Monterey County, CA
Walking to refreshments... after the parade
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