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Illustration design for The Happy Lioness: "How amazed he was when that long-maned LION ... rubbed his hairy head against his own!"
Illustration design for The Happy Lioness: "How amazed he was when that long-maned LION ... rubbed his hairy head against his own!"
Illustration design for The Happy Lioness: "How amazed he was when that long-maned LION ... rubbed his hairy head against his own!"

Illustration design for The Happy Lioness: "How amazed he was when that long-maned LION ... rubbed his hairy head against his own!"

Artist Roger Duvoisin (American, born in Switzerland, 1900-1980)
Author Louise Fatio Duvoisin (American, born in Switzerland, 1904-1993)
Publisher McGraw-Hill Publishing Company (New York, New York, founded 1909)
Date1980
MediumGouache and black ink on paper, mounted to illustration board
DimensionsImage: 26 x 21 cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 27.9 x 44.5 cm (11 x 17 1/2 in.)
Mount: 31.8 x 47.6 cm (12 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsDrawing
Credit LineGift of Louise Fatio Duvoisin
Object number85.014.008.13
Collections
Exhibition History- Lively Art of Children's Books, 06/1987-08/1987, Bergen Museum, Paramus, NJ - Donkey-donkey, Petunia, and Other Pals: Drawings by Roger Duvoisin, 07/11/2015-06/26/2016, Zimmerli Art Museum, Duvoisin Gallery
Exhibitions

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1979
Book jacket illustration for The Happy Lioness
Book jacket illustration for The Happy Lioness
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1980
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Page 22 and 23 illustrations for The Happy Lioness
Roger Duvoisin
1980
Image Not Available for Page 26 and 27 illustrations for The Happy Lioness
Page 26 and 27 illustrations for The Happy Lioness
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1980
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“Other nights Sammy lingered by the wide fireplace listening to the moaning sound of his aunt’s spinning wheel, or he joined the many children gathered in the kitchen. Negroes sat there telling fearsome stories of Old Raw Head and Bloody Bones—or the tale of the ‘Golden Arm’.”
Illustration design for America’s Mark Twain
Lynd Ward
c. 1962
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"Just as he got halfway down his feet struck a patch of ice and flew out from under him," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain
Lynd Ward
c. 1962
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Adrienne Adams
1978
Image Not Available for Page 12 and 13 illustrations for The Happy Lioness
Page 12 and 13 illustrations for The Happy Lioness
Roger Duvoisin
1980