"TELL ME A PICTURE: An exhibition selected by Quentin Blake"
2001-02-14 until 2001-06-17
National Gallery
London, , UK United Kingdom

The Children's Laureate and distinguished illustrator Quentin Blake has assembled an alphabetical anthology of twenty-six pictures, to encourage younger visitors to engage with a wide range of striking and imaginative images and to wonder what the stories might be. The works include paintings from the National Gallery's collection, among them Piero di Cosimo's A Satyr mourning over a Nymph and Uccello's Saint George and the Dragon, as well as 20th-century works by Jack Yeats, Edward Hopper, Ken Kiff and Paula Rego, and book illustrators John Burningham, Michael Foreman and Roberto Innocenti.

Mysterious, exciting, touching and sometimes disturbing, they are all distinguished by their pictorial inventiveness. Quentin Blake, who is widely known for his illustrations to the books of Roald Dahl, has won an international reputation for his own quirky and humorous drawings, and the book accompanying the exhibition is richly illustrated by him.

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