Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes

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Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes

Artist Alexander Calder American, 1898-1976

Publisher Curt Valentin, New York, 1944

Printer Golden Eagle Press, Mt. Vernon (S. A. Jacobs)

Author James Johnson Sweeney American, 1900-1986

Date1944

Dimensionsbook: 12 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. (321 x 251mm)
page: 12 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (314 x 241mm)

MediumReproductions: 85 line block reproductions of ink drawings, plus one repeated on the cover Text: letterpress (typeface: Granjon) Paper: Arnold white wove paper

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Credit LineMuseum Purchase

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1979.110

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Published Referencescf. Wheeler, Monroe, Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators, New York, 1946, p. 99. cf. Philips, Elizabeth, The American Livre de Peintre, New York, The Grolier Club, 1993, no. 9Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Don't Feed the Books: Birds, TMA: The Artist As Illustrator, Mar. 21, - June 21,1981 Bugs, and Bestiaries Featuring the Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, 2001, repr. p. 15. Jan. 22, - June 24, 1983 TMA Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, & llustrated Books Jan. 22, - June 24, 1983