Original illustration: “Heat Wave”
No place: [2007]. Watercolor on paper, measuring 4.5 x 5.25 inches. Signed in pencil in lower right image, and titled in pencil on verso by Lewin. Hinged to mat measuring 9 x 9 inches, archivally framed to 10.25 x 10.5 inches.
Original illustration by Betsy Lewin for Eileen Spinelli’s 2007 children’s book Heat Wave, which follows the residents of a small Pennsylvania river town as they seek relief from increasing summer temperatures: “Sun sizzled. Hair frizzled. It was a sweltering day in Lumberville - long before stores, businesses, or homes had air conditioners.” The exhausted, collapsed figure depicted here is part of a playful series of vignettes: “Some people fell asleep in their street clothes. Some in nightshirts. Some in pajamas.” Betsy Lewin is best known for her illustrations for Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, a Caldecott Honor Book for 2000, and Duck for President, the New York Times Best Illustrated Book for 2004, both written by Doreen Cronin. She and her husband, illustrator and collaborator Ted Lewin, were inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2015. A fun original image by an award-winning illustrator.
Price: $200.00