Story Illustration (detail) for "Abraham Lincoln Comes Home" by Robert Burleigh, Copyright 2008 by Wendell Minor. All rights reserved.
A good picture, like a good story, is timeless.
-Wendell Minor
Take a journey though history, from sea to shining sea, through the art of Wendell Minor, our nation’s premier historical picture book illustrator. The artist’s many children’s books reflect for the environment. His travels have taken him form the tropical Everglades of Florida to Barrow, Alaska in the Arctic Circle; form the Midwest to the Grand Canyon in the Southwest; and throughout the United States to research h is many nationally acclaimed books. Original artworks, drawings and references form Reaching for the Moon and Look to the Stars by Buzz Aldrin, Sitting Bull Remembers by Ann Turner, Abraham Lincoln Comes Home by Robert Burleigh, Arctic Son by Craighead George, Shane by Jack Schaefre, and America the Beautiful Katherine Lee Bates, amount many others, will be featured.
Fee: $10,000 for a time period of eight to twelve weeks plus shipping and insurance.
Contents: approx. 100 original works of art; intoductory and biographical panels and object/extended identification labels.
Insurance: all risk fine arts, wall to wall
Security: High, all works must be within sight of a trained security officer/staff member at all times during public hours.
Environment: Light level 18 to 22 foot candles for paintings 5 to 7 foot candles for works on paper and other light restricted objects, humidity 50% plus or minus 5% and temperature 68-72 degrees, no direct sunlight and no direct contact with light fixtures or heating, air conditioning, ventilation, or electrical outlets.
Shipping: air ride, climate controlled
