The night Maurice Sendak lay under an animal-fur blanket at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, looking at Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s drawings for a French novel, he thought, Hey, this is living, and then museum director Clive Driver said, “We’ll take your stuff too!” And so Sendak gave his art and papers to the Rosenbach so that people could have a place to go to see the things he had made.
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