Forty-Seven Days to Oz: A Chronicle of the Studies for the Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [47]

[28 pp.] Includes reproductions of nine sketches. An account of Barry Moser's process while creating sixty-two images for L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for his Pennyroyal Press edition, edited from daily journal entries that he started after nearly two years of planning the project. Moser's editions of classics, most notably the Pennyroyal Alice and Oz, are well-made and visually stunning, and are widely collected. This provides interesting insight into the production of them, and into Moser's attitude as an artist.