Pat Cummings (African American, b. 1950)
An Armor-clad Horse, 2007
Illustration for Harvey Moon, Museum Boy, HarperCollins, 2008
Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on Fabriano Artistico Hot Press watercolor paper
Unsigned
Sheet 15 x 20 ½ inches
Copyright © 2008 Pat Cummings

In Pat Cummings' book Harvey Moon, Museum Boy (2008), Harvey and his lizard Zippy are locked inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art overnight. When the exhibits come to life, Harvey mounts an armored horse to escape, leaping past Samurai warriors and hungry pterodactyls.

Cummings is the creator of more than 40 books. She won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award in 1984 for My Mama Needs Me, written by Mildred Pitts Walter. Her work was featured in The Carle's exhibitions Iconic Images: 10 Years of Collecting for The Carle (2012) and Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards (2018).



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