Donkey-donkey, Petunia, and Other Pals: Drawings by Roger Duvoisin

July 11, 2015 - June 26, 2016 - The exhibition features original illustration drawings for some of Duvoisin’s beloved picture book classics for children, including Donkey-donkey: The Troubles of a Silly Little Donkey (1933); Caldecott Medal winner White Snow, Bright Snow (1947), authored by Alvin Tresselt;  Petunia (1950); A for the Ark (1952); Nubber Bear (1966), authored by William Lipkind; The Old Bullfrog (1968) and The Web in the Grass (1972), both by Berniece Freschet; The Crocodile in the Tree (1972);  Snowy and Woody (1979); and The Happy Lioness (1980), authored by Duvoisin’s wife Louise Fatio. The almost forty drawings in this  display were selected from the more than 2,000 Duvoisin works in the Zimmerli’s extensive collection of American prints and drawings.