Sam I Am
Click to view image and pricing Call 650-322-2200 for pricing Dimensions: Single image size: 11.75” x 8.5”, diptych image size 11.75" x 18" Medium: Serigraph on paper Edition Size: 1500 single, 850 diptych Availability: Sold out at publisher but still available at Peabody Gallery Year of Release: 2006 Adapted posthumously from an early concept drawing and the final illustration for the 1960 book, Green Eggs and Ham.Adapted posthumously from the final illustration for the 1960 book, Green Eggs and Ham.Green Eggs and Ham was born out of a $50 wager between Dr. Seuss and his publisher, Bennett Cerf, who bet he couldn’t write an articulate, entertaining book using only fifty different words. The result was a 62-page volume composed of 49 monosyllabic words and a fiftieth three-syllable word “anywhere.” When Cerf heard Ted’s first reading of the book, he seemed dazed, shaking his head over the clear triumph of Green Eggs and Ham, which had begun as their private joke. Although he concede