A Rarely Glimpsed Side Of The Art Of Dr Seuss

                        Sawfish skull reformed and painted by Theodore Geisel (aka, Dr Seuss)

 

   The Children's book author/illustrator Theodore Geisel (better known as Dr Seuss) is world renown for his fanciful and fun drawings of interesting comical characters. What is little known was that his penchant for creating fantastic drawings of imaginary creatures also extended to the medium of sculpture.

   The above sculpture incorporates the skull of a sawfish and was created by Ted Geisel well before he began using the nom de plume Dr Seuss, in his teen years when his father (at the time the supervisor of the Springfield, Mass public parks system, which included the zoo) would bring home the skeletal remains of various animals for his son to apply his imagination and talents to. 

   It is both wonderfully whimsical and a tad scary, though as low a key scary as scary can possibly be.