Original Watercolor Drawing for "Who Dreams of Cheese," created for Charles Scribner's Sons by Weisgard, Leonard - 1940

1940. 1 vols. Image size: 14 x 16 framed size- 22 x 24. Weisgard, Leonard. 1 vols. Image size: 14 x 16 framed size- 22 x 24. An innovative artist and Caldecott Award winner, Weisgard was instrumental in changing children's picturebooks from being primarily stories to incorporating modernist art and other disciplines and creating a medium which invited the viewer to "see things in a new way" (Bader). The picture here is a scene in a dense forest, incorporating countless types of leaves and grasses in various shades of green, surrounding the central figures of a bird perched on a branch eating from a bunch of purple grapes, and a butterfly and a dragonfly flutter over a nest containing three white eggs. In the lower left corner, a large gray squirrel watches the activity in the branches. The drawing is highlighted with splashes of brilliant yellows and a translucent violet sky. Bader, pp. 224-225