' ’S SECRET ART COLLECTION.
♪ >> BY DAY, DR. SEUSS WOULD DOODLE AND RHYME.
BUT HIS SUPER SEUSS TALENT CAME OUT AT NIGHTTIME.
AS ALL THE WORLD SLEPT, THE GOOD DR. KRAFT, GRABBING PALETTE AND BRUSH, PAINTING MASTERPIECES HUSH-HUSH.
>> HE DID NOT WANT TO ALLOW THE ART WORLD TO TAKE POSSESSION OF DR. SEUSS AS HIDDEN GENIUS.
AS A NIGHTTIME DALI.
>> DARTMOUTH COLLEGE ENGLISH PROFESSOR DON PEASE SHARES HIS SECRETS IN THE MILLYARD HER FEET -- BIOGRAPHY OF DR. SEUSS.
>> SINCE ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS OF HIS LIFE TO FACE AT DARTMOUTH, HE DEVELOPED THE PSEUDONYM SEUSS WHEN HE WAS A STUDENT WORKING ON THE HUMOR MAGAZINE HERE, I FELT
PROFOUNDLY INVESTED IN WORKING OUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIS LIFE AND HIS ART.
>> SEUSS ENROLLED AT DARTMOUTH AS TED GEISEL.
THE PSEUDONYM CAME UP WHEN HE GOT IN TROUBLE FOR DRUNKEN SHENANIGANS.
HE WAS THROWN OUT AS EDITOR OF THE JACK-O’-LANTERN, NO LONGER ALLOWED TO WRITE OR DRAW FOR THE STUDENT HUMOR MAGAZINE.
>> HE DECIDED TO MAKE SOME IMAGES, CARTOONS, UNDER PSEUDONYMS.
THE FIRST PSEUDONYM WAS MATT OSBORNE WHO WAS THE WHARTON OF SING SING PRISON.
THE NEXT PSEUDONYM WAS LUTHER BURBANK.
>> FINALLY SETTLING WIT SEUSS, HIS MIDDLE NAME.
HE ADDED DR. AFTER PURSUING A DOCTORATE OF ENGLISH EVEN THOUGH HE DROPPED OUT WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS DOODLING MORE THAN TAKING NOTES.
♪ HIS PEN NAME SCRAWLED ON NEARLY 50 WHIMSICAL CHILDREN’S BOOKS HE WROTE AND ILLUSTRATED IN HIS LIFETIME.
SOME OF HIS SKETCHES AND PRIVATE NOTES ON DISPLAY.
THIS TRAVELING EXHIBIT IN MASSACHUSETTS.
>> THIS IS HUGE.
PROBABLY ONE OR TWO GALLERIES IN THE NORTHEAST THAT EVER HAS THIS . >> IT SHOWS A SIDE OF DR. SEUSS MOST READERS OF HIS BOOKS HAVE NEVER SEEN.
>> THIS IS THE MIDNIGHT COLLECTION.
THE SECRET ART OF DR. SEUSS.
AND THESE WERE NEVER TO BE SHOWN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
>> TED GUYS ALL -- GEISEL REQUESTED HIS PRIVATE STASH ONLY BE RELEASED AFTER HIS DEATH.
THE SHOWCASE EXHIBITS REPRODUCTIONS, THE ESTATE AUTHORIZING A LIMITED NUMBER FOR SALE.
THE SCULPTURES LOOK LIKE THEY JUMPED RIGHT OUT OF HIS BOOKS.
>> AND AT WINTER CARNIVAL AT DARTMOUTH, HE LOVED TO CREATE.
IT BECAME THE BASIS FOR THE UNORTHODOX TAXIDERMY.
>> GEISEL MADE PAINTINGS AFTER DARK PURELY FOR PLEASURE.
SHIFTING FROM AUTHOR TO PAINTER GAVE GEISEL BALANCE.
>> ONE OF THE WAYS YOU CAN DO IT IS BY GETTING UP AT MIDNIGHT JUST BEFORE YOU GO INTO DEEP SLEEP.
AND DOING JUSTICE TO THE FIGURES THAT SAY, TED, YOU ALSO HAVE A CUBIST IN YOU.
YOU ALSO HAVE A SURREALIST IN YOU.
YOU ALSO HAVE AN EXPRESSIONIST IN YOU.
YOU ARE A FIRST-RATE ARTIST AND THAT ENABLES YOU TO CREATE CHILDREN’S LOOKS.
>> HIS PAINTINGS BEAR COMPARISON TO SOME OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST ARTISTS.
>> WE SEE INFLUENCE O ANTONI GAUDI AND ANDRE BRETON.
>> GEISEL DID NOT WANT ANY PART OF THE ART WORLD, EVEN SET OUT TO PROVE ITS CONCEIT BY HANGING HIS PAINTING NEXT TO HIS FRONT DOOR.
HE SIGNED IT, STREUGO VON M.
>> HE TOLD HIS FRIENDS, I JUST PURCHASED THIS IN LONDON.
TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.
HIS FRIENDS WOULD GIVE HIM AN ASSESSMENT OF THE WORK, MOSTLY HIGH PRAISE.
HE SAID HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF V ON M?
THOSE THAT SAID THEY HAD WERE THE MOST PRETENTIOUS.
>> TO DR. SEUSS, ART CONNOISSEURS CONTRADICT THE CENTRAL MESSAGE WE DIDN’T TO ALL OF HIS WORKS.
>> A PERSON IS A PERSON NO MATTER HOW SMALL.
>> FROM BOOKS TO PAINTINGS, HIS TALENT ABOUNDS.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, DR. SEUSS STILL ASTOUND