Art Auction
Children’s Literature Assembly invites you to participate in a Silent Auction featuring original artwork by children’s book illustrators. Own a piece of art and support the work of CLA (which offers workshops, scholarships, research grants, publications, etc.)
Previous illustrator donors have included Jerry Pinkney, Brian Pinkney, Steve Jenkins, Betsy Lewin, Tad Hills, James Ransome, Tasha Tudor, Kadir Nelson, David Small, and Ed Young, to name a few.
ART AUCTION NARRATIVE FOR EACH IMAGE
Shadra Strickland
“Hat man”
Original signed painting in watercolor, gouache, pen, and pencil on paper
Image size 9 x 12
Current Bid: $125
Shadra Strickland is the winner of the ALA John Steptoe Award for New Talent and the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award for her illustrations for Bird (written by Zetta Elliott).
Calef Brown
“Cross Purposes”
Original signed painting in acrylic on paper
Image size 8 X 10.5
Current Bid: $200
Calef Brown is both author and illustrator of Polkabats and Octopus Slacks, Dutch Sneakers and Fleakeepers, Tippintown, Soup for Breakfast, Hallowilloween, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Flamingos on the Roof.
Calef Brown
“Nose Cooler”
Original signed painting in acrylic on paper
Image size 5 X 8
Current Bid: $200
Calef Brown is both author and illustrator of Polkabats and Octopus Slacks, Dutch Sneakers and Fleakeepers, Tippintown, Soup for Breakfast, Hallowilloween, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Flamingos on the Roof.
Keith Graves
“Three Nasty Gnarlies”
Original signed painting in acrylic and color pencil
From Three Nasty Gnarlies written and illustrated by Keith Graves
Image size 11.5 X 12
Current Bid: $150
Keith Graves is author and illustrator of Three Nasty Gnarlies, Chicken Big, Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance, The Unexpectedly Bad Hair of Barcelona Smith, and Loretta, Ace Pinky Scout, among others.
Douglas Florian
“Welcome”
Original signed painting in gouache watercolor and colored pencil on paper
Image size 9 x 10.5
Current Bid: $400
Douglas Florian is an author, poet, and artist and creator of Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars, Insectlopedia, Poetrees, Laugh-eteria, Dinothesaurus, Winter Eyes, In the Swim (to name a few) winning multiple recognitions including New York Times Best Illustrated book, Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, a Horn Book Fanfare List selection, and more.
Robert Weinstock
“Trajectories”
Archival signed limited edition print of the illustration for the poem, “Trajectories,” in Can You Dig It?
From Can You Dig It? written and illustrated by Robert Weinstock
Image size 10 X 10
Current Bid: $90
Robert Weinstock is the author and illustrator of Giant Meatball, Food Hates You, Too and Other Poems, and Can You Dig It? about which Kirkus commended “Weinstock's boisterous rhymes, along with his lumpy dinosaurs and dumpy cavemen, galumph through the pages… A prehistoric romp for the ages.”
Rick Allen
“Baby Porcupette”
Number 1 in a limited edition of 500 prints
Signed limited edition Giclee print of the illustration for the poem, “I Am a Baby Porcupette” in Dark Emperor printed on archival Crane Museo paper in Epson Ultrachrome ink
From Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night written by Joyce Sidman and illustrated by Rick Allen
Image size 17 X 21.5
Current Bid: $175
Rick Allen is the co-owner of Kenspeckle LetterPress and an artist specializing in wood engravings and lino cuts in small editions using multiple blocks and hand coloring. Dark Emperor received multiple awards including a Newbery honor, Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award honor, Boston Globe/Horn Book honor, among many others.
Pamela Zagarenski
“Red”
Signed limited edition archival print of the illustration for “Red” in Red Sings from Treetops framed with an acid free mat behind ultraviolet glass
From Red Sings from Treetops; A Year in Colors written by Joyce Sidman illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
Image size 15.5 x 15.5
Current Bid: $550
Pamela Zagarenski received a Caldecott honor for her illustrations for Red Sings from Treetops; A Year in Colors written by Joyce Sidman and also illustrated This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness also written by Joyce Sidman and Mites to Mastodons: A Book of Animal Poems written by Maxine Kumin.