Gift of John H. Thomas in Memory of Hermine Cary Gratz Johnstone

Maria Cecil Gist Gratz was the first wife of Benjamin Gratz. The couple lived in Lexington, Kentucky, but had their portraits painted by Thomas Sully in 1831 while on an extended visit to visit Benjamin’s Philadelphia relatives. They also had Sully paint a portrait of Benjamin’s sister Rebecca to bring back home with them.

One of Maurice Sendak’s last interviews was a two-part segment aired on The Colbert Report in January 2012. The humorous interviews addressed Sendak’s thoughts about children’s book writing and his opinions on Stephen Colbert’s desire to publish a children’s book. The Colbert Report has subsequently donated a number of objects used in, or generated by, the filming, as well as materials relating to Colbert’s book I Am a Pole (And So Can You!). Donated items include:

This volume is a posthumous compilation of essays on art by Maurice Sendak’s partner, psychoanalyst Dr. Eugene Glynn.

These three collections from 1960 and 1961 (volumes  31, 35, 41 in the series) contain selections illustrated by Maurice Sendak: The Velveteen Rabbit, Windy Wash Day and Other Poems, and What the Good-Man Does is Always Right.