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The Art of Dr. Seuss exhibition and sale of so-called lithographs, serigraphs and edition sculptures by Storyopolis Gallery is a -fraud-.

These images and objects were all forged, with counterfeit "Dr. Seuss" signatures, since 1997.

Theodor Geisel died in 1991.

Lithographs, under U.S. Customs regulation, must be "wholly executed by hand by the artist {and} excluding any mechanical and photomechanical processes."

In other words, the dead don't create art.

Therefore, Gallery Director Jordon Roth, exposes, with or without intent a severe lack of connoisseurship ie., understanding the difference between an original versus reproductions. That would be, at best, an extremely generous explanation but not an excuse.

As for The Chase Group and their curator William Dreyer, their perspective and practice is why let the truth interfere with commerce.

Just think since 1997, Theodor Geisel is backhandedly credited, by The Chase Group, with creating more than 72,000 original works of visual art, which lithographs, serigraphs and sculptures are, seven times more work than I have created in my entire lifetime and Geisel is dead.

How'd he do that?

Just imagine, what could he have done if he was alive?

It goes from the ridiculous to the sublime, doesn't it?

As an artist & scholar, I have been the source of television, print and radio broadcast stories concerning this Art of Dr. Seuss -fraud-, as well as published, posted and distributed monographs documenting this fraud online with amazingly -not- one single response from The Chase Group or its' curator William Dreyer refuting me on any factual point except to say, as the curator did to Austin Fox TV reporter Chris Coffey in an April 1, 2005 televised "Dr. Seuss or Clever Ruse" story, "it's certainly nothing we would want to dignify with a response."

A non-denial denial.

Finally, with full disclosure to these forgeries as forgeries, you the consumer can give informed consent on whether to attend this fraud, much less purchase one of these forgeries. Just remember, Theodor Geisel has -never- seen the work some are so eager to give him credit for and sell to you at $225 to $9,000 or more each.

Gary Arseneau artist, creator of original lithographs & scholar Fernandina Beach, Florida