A look beyond his books: Dr. Seuss secret artwork displays author’s private mind
VANCOUVER — Late at night, with the world asleep, Theodor Seuss Geisel to his studio would creep. The author and illustrator stashed his unfinished prose and unrolled artwork that nobody knows.
The world came to love him as Dr. Seuss; he famously created characters like the Whos. An expert says that his midnight jam helped him dream up stories like “Green Eggs and Ham.”
“At nighttime, it was just his own unbridled creativity he was able to put out there on canvas, on a piece of paper, on board,” said Jeff Schuffman, spokesman for the Art of Dr. Seuss Collection for more than a decade.
“Which, I think, definitely benefited what he was doing during his day job. I think one inspired the other.”