Art Art &Bill Peckmann &Books &Illustration 08 Apr 2011 07:17 am
Peet Row
On posting some of Grant Wood‘s illustrations last weeik, Eddie Fitzgerald commented that:”‘Death on the Ridge Road’ might have been the inspiration for one of my favotite Bill Peet illustrations in (I think) ‘Chester the Worldly Pig.’†Bill Peckmann pointed out that the book is probably not “Chester the Worldly Pig” but “Jennifer and Josephine.”
Bill’s scanned a good half of the book’s illustrations leading up to the point where the Wood painting and the Peet illustrations come close to matching. It’s good to see what was so obviously Peet’s influences.
Grant Wood’s DEATH ON RIDGE ROW.
Cover of the book.
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Thanks go to Eddie Fitzgerald for the reference in the comments.
A bigger thanks goes out to Bill Peckmann for the search and the scans.
on 08 Apr 2011 at 2:22 pm 1.eddie Fitzgerald said …
Thanks for the correction! I should have known that because Jennifer is one of the very best Peet books.
Wood and Peet are both terrific artists. Wood manages to find the drama in three vehicles facing disaster on a seemingly insignificant country road, surrounded by the mystery and awesome grandeur of nature. It would take several paragraphs to describe in words what the picture tells us in an instant: how strange and precarious life is! How simultaneously noble and insignificant we humans are!