The thrilling, chilling, eerie and witty images of Edward Gorey are a benchmark of 20th-century American graphic art. New England museum-goers will soon get to see what thrilled Gorey, when the ...

Here are some of the adjectives deployed over the last half century to describe the art of Edward Gorey: Gothic and poetic, nonsensical and surreal, unnerving and macabre. Gorey, who disliked all ...

"Sur la Plage" is one of 26 Edward Gorey illustrations that Buck Kiechel found in a box while on a trip to purchase art by Grant Wood. The illustrations are from early in the career of Gorey, who ...

The art of Edward Gorey is full of unidentifiable creatures, gloomy adults and children doing who-knows-what, inexplicable shadows, buildings that very well may be haunted. But he was not alone in his ...

Edward Gorey on the set he designed for the Broadway revival of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' in 1977. Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Artist, illustrator and writer Edward Gorey would have turned 100 this year, ...

Edward Gorey in Barnstable, Cape Cod, 1961. (Photo by Eleanor Garvey / From Elizabeth Morton’s Private Collection) For 33 years, Edward Gorey rented an apartment in Manhattan. The author and artist ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Elizabeth Wolfson, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) Artist, ...