Exhibits

Murder He Wrote reveals Gorey's strange world of suspicious characters, red herrings, and inconclusive revelations. It is a crosshatched black and white world of both rigid social class and brutal anarchy where nothing much happens until it does. It is, in fact, a world very much like its author: brimming with false clues and mystery.

Our 2017 exhibit Edward Gorey’s Cabinet of Curiosities showcased some of the objects, artwork and oddities that Edward filled his House with—all in the form of a Wunderkammer—the 15th Century precursor to our modern-day museum.

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As the title suggests, a trove of never-seen and rarely-seen artwork produced by writer/illustrator Edward Gorey. Artifacts from the Archives offers an eclectic and pleasantly inexplicable menagerie of characters, creatures and landscapes in ink, paper, ceramic, and leather, which have—until now—languished in obscurity.

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Our 2015 Exhibit From Aesop to Updike, Edward Gorey's Book Cover Art featured both first editions and original art, five decades of Edward Gorey's commercial assignments. Intriguing, distinguishable, elegant and a little off. A remarkable additional body of work from an artist already known for his remarkable body of work.

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Edward Gorey's F is for FantodsThe Fantod Press published such illustrious writers and illustrators as Ogdred Weary, Mrs Regera Dowdy, Eduard Blutig, O. Müde, Raddory Gewe, Edward Pig, Garrod Weedy, Awdrey-Gore, and someone named Om. All of them have one very important thing in common. All were Edward Gorey. ... Click to Read On >>

Edward Gorey's Vinegar WorksPublished in 1963 as a slip cased collection of three books intended to instruct, appall and amuse, The Vinegar Works, Three Volumes of Moral Instruction by Edward Gorey celebrates its golden anniversary this year. A special exhibition of artwork from the three volumes, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Insect God, and The West Wing, will be on display at The Edward Gorey House beginning April 18, 2013 and continuing ... Click to Read On >>

Edward Gorey's Envelope Art The book "Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer" and our new exhibit "Envelope Art of Edward Gorey" provides a rare glimpse into this unusual collaboration. This exhibit also includes many other illustrated and colored envelopes, to family and friends from the 1940’s to the 1970’s.

Edward Gorey and the Performing Arts exhibit featured a wide-range of Edward Gorey's works for the performing arts, including work he did at Harvard, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, his 'entertainments' on Cape Cod, and many more..

Edward Gorey Illustrates Famous Authors the exhibit featured a wide-range of Edward Gorey's works for other authors, including Hillaire Belloc, Florence Heide, Edward Lear, T.S. Eliot, John Updike, Muriel Sparks, and many more. This exhibit showcased original pencil sketches, pen and ink drawings and watercolors. Many works in the exhibit are unpublished; some are on loan from private collections and have never before been on public display, creating a special opportunity for even the most serious Gorey fans and collectors to see works exhibited for the first time.

Gorey's Creatures ~ Real and Imagined the exhibit featured a wide-range of animals and creatures from Gorey's ever popular cats and bats, to bugs and slugs, and the imaginary characters Figbash and Skrump.

This exhibit showcased original pencil sketches, pen and ink drawings and watercolors, along with some of Gorey's hand-sewn stuffed creatures.

Many works in the exhibit are unpublished; some are on loan from private collections and have never before been on public display, creating a special opportunity for even the most serious Gorey fans and collectors to see works exhibited for the first time.