Edward Gorey Coloring Book

Edward Gorey—famous for masterful pen-and-ink drawings and ironic, offbeat humor—won critical acclaim and an avid worldwide following during his prolific career. He produced more than one hundred illustrated works, created prize-winning set and costume designs for Broadway shows, published numerous illustrations for a variety of publications, and illustrated the works of many well-known authors, including Raymond Chandler, T. S. Eliot, Gilbert & Sullivan, Edward Lear, Bram Stoker, John Updike, and Virginia Woolf. With his enigmatic and often darkly humorous tales full of eccentrics, Gorey left his unique stamp on American art and culture.

Bats, cats, and men in fur coats make frequent appearances in his artwork, as do exotic and quirky creatures known only in the trademark crosshatched drawings emanating from his pen. All of Gorey’s characters inhabit an enigmatic, often vaguely Edwardian world, where human foibles and frailties are deftly assuaged by witty flights of fantasy.

Images

1. Illustration for The Remembered Visit
2. Lizard Family Reunion
3. Illustration for The Awdrey-Gore Legacy
4. Illustration for The Dong with a Luminous Nose, by Edward Lear
5. Illustration for The Blue Aspic
6. Twelve Lords a’Leaping
7. Untitled illustration
8. Illustration for The Shrinking of Treehorn, by Florence Parry Heide
9. Illustration for Irene Iddesleigh, by Amanda McKittrick Ros
10. Untitled illustration
11. Untitled illustration
12. Illustration for The Other Statue
13. Illustration for The Jumblies, by Edward Lear
14. Illustration for The Jumblies, by Edward Lear
15. Illustration for The Jumblies, by Edward Lear
16. Illustration for The Gilded Bat
17. Gazebo
18. Flaming Punch Bowl
19. Illustration for The Very Fine Clock, by Muriel Spark
20. Illustration for Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by T. S. Eliot
21. Untitled illustration (detail)
22. Untitled illustration
23. Illustration for Mystery! (detail)
24. Baby Toss (Falling?)
25. Illustration for Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses