Dr. Seuss Broken Sawfish

Adapted posthumously from the original 1930s plaster, sawfish bill, and oil on wood mount sculpture. In 1938 Paul Jerman, who had graduated from Dartmouth with Suess, wrote a brief biography of him for the alumni newspaper. Jerman said in part, “Another iron in the fire is what the doctor himself calls The Seuss System of Unorthodox Taxidermy. Not satisfied with drawing strange beasties, Suess modeled the heads of some of his animals and mounted them. Put on display in bookshops around New York to promote And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, many people wanted to buy the weird animal heads.”