The Joyous Leaping of Uncanned Salmon

Serigraph on Archival Canvas
Authorized Estate Edition
 
Adapted posthumously from the original acrylic on canvas board
 
Image and Canvas Size:  24” x 30”

Dr. Seuss was living and working in New York City as an editorial cartoonist in the 1930s when Surrealism crashed onto the art scene in the United States. Being a part of that explosive time had a profound impact on Ted's artistic ideas and development. His fascination with both the Surrealist and Dada movements becomes ingeniously clear in wry artworks such as The Joyous Leaping of Uncanned Salmon, Fooling Nobody, and I Dreamed I Was the Doorman at the Hotel Del Coronado.

As is the case with many of his paintings, Ted Geisel's titles provide a gateway to the logistical insanity of his creative imagination. In this piece, he serves up punchy color set against a geometric platform where paisley-styled "salmon" jump for joy. Seuss purposefully asks questions that he intends the viewers to answer for themselves such as, "Are these Salmon having a final celebration before their journey to the cannery, or have they completely escaped this unsavory predicament?"

Limited Edition of 850 Arabic Numbers
99 Patron's Collection
155 Collaborator Proofs
5 Hors d' Commerce