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 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conn., mounts “Gorey’s Worlds,” featuring his personal collection of artworks and objects, along with rare examples of his own drawings. The exhibition is rich in works on paper by a range of French artists, from Eugène Delacroix and Édouard Manet of the 19th century to Jean Dubuffet of...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 05, 2018 17:03 UTC