Edward Gorey at the Cartoon Art Museum

San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum is an under appreciated spot for some awesome art viewing when you're by the bay. Right now they have an Edward Gorey exhibit, perfect for a little pre-Halloween enjoyment. Especially since it displays all of his iset and costume design llustrations for the Broadway production of Dracula.

From the Cartoon Art Museum website:

The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to present Edward Gorey's Dracula, an amazing exhibition of the master cartoonist's original set and costume designs, rare production photographs and memorabilia from the Tony Award-winning Broadway production. Museum visitors will have a unique behind-the-scenes look at the creative process, from Gorey's initial notes and sketches through his completed concept artwork.

About Edward Gorey
A truly prodigious and original artist, Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000), gave to the world over one hundred works, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest and The Wuggly Ump; prize-winning set and costume designs for innumerable theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway; a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such as The New Yorker and The NewYork Times, and in books by a wide array of authors from Charles Dickens to Edward Lear, Samuel Beckett, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, Florence Heide and many others. His well known animated credits for the PBS Mystery! series have introduced him to millions of television viewers. Gorey's masterful pen and ink illustrations and his ironic, offbeat humor have brought him critical acclaim and an avid following throughout the world.