Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened show at a museum outside New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention.

I can still recollect, as a very young teenager, seeing for the first time Lear’s landscapes in an art gallery and simply assuming that they were the work of another Edward Lear. The supreme ...

Lear did not publish the journals, which accompany this portfolio, as with previous journeys, yet they are considered some of his finest writings outside of his Nonsense verse. The book will be of ...

Much childhoodâ and adultâ delight can be attributed to a certain Edward Lear who conjured ... The book is peppered with Lear's ideas about art, including his doubts about his own ability.

This talk will introduce a small display about Edward Lear (1812 – 1888). Best known today for his nonsense poems such as The Owl and the Pussycat, and the Jumblies, Lear was also a talented artist.

Edward Lear (1812-1888) was an artist, author, poet and musician particularly known for nonsensical verse, prose and limericks. The “Book of Nonsense” was written and illustrated by Lear in 1846 and ...