Cover from Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! book. Ted Geisel came up with the idea for The Grinch the day after Christmas when he looked in the mirror and saw a rather Grinch-ish look on his face. "Something had gone awfully wrong with Christmas or maybe with me," he said. Weary of the over-commercialization of Christmas and sensing that the meaning of the holiday was being lost in the wrappings and ribbons, boxes and bows, Ted Geisel sat down and wrote How the Grinch Stole Christmas! when he was 53 years old. The book itself offers up written clues that Ted visualized himself as the Grinch; "I must stop this whole thing! Why, for fifty-three years I've put up with it now! I must stop this Christmas from coming! . . . But how?" Geisel felt people largely mistook the Grinch for the ultimate villain saying, "Can't they understand that the Grinch in my story is the hero of Christmas? Sure, he starts out as a villain, but it's not how you start out that counts. It's what you are at the finish." This artwork is offered framed, in a 5/8" Flat Natural wood color frame with archival color core matting and plexi glass glazing (as shown), or unframed.

Medium: Lithograph on Somerset Paper
Edition Size: 2500 Arabic Numbers; 99 Patron's Collection; 155 Collaborators' Proofs
Image Size: 11" w
Paper Size: 14" h x 17.5" w
Framed Size: 19 1/4" h x 22 1/4" w
Price Unframed: : $355 (inc. s/h)
Price Framed: : $540 (inc. s/h)