Babar visits New York

To be more precise Babar came to the JP Morgan Library: The exhibition Drawing Babar returns visitors to the two essential moments of Babar's creation: when Jean de Brunhoff and, years later, his son Laurent, set down their initial thoughts on paper. Their earliest drafts, shown in juxtaposition with their finished watercolors, allow viewers to track the changes, both subtle and substantive, that both men made as they refined their work, bringing together word and image with elegance and exuberance. essay by New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik Drawing Babar the exhibition: Early Drafts and Watercolors September 19, 2008, through January 4, 2009