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Twenty-Six Dachshunds: An Alphabet Book
The twenty-six letters of the English alphabet are represented by twenty-six images
of dachshunds created by author and artist Craig Marshall Smith, three of his friends,
three of his former college art students, and the 13-year-old daughter of his photographer.
Drawings, paintings, photographs, collages, and digital images are featured adjacent
to short biographies of twenty-six individuals in the arts, from "A" for Audrey Hepburn to "Z"
for ZaSu Pitts. Others include "H" for Harper Lee, "L" for Luis Buñuel, and "R" for
Robert Frank.
Buster Keaton, Claude Debussy, Groucho Marx, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, whose
namesake is a young Frankenstein, brilliantly drawn by medical illustrator Brett Ganyard, that
shows a boy creating his own stuffed dachshund.
With permission from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Giacomo Balla's Dynamism of a Dog
on a Leash , art history's most famous dachshund, is a bonus twenty-seventh.
(Like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, look for a hidden name in the author's painting of Nina .)
Although Twenty-Six Dachshunds is intended for all ages, the images are examples of
fine art, not cartooning.
of dachshunds created by author and artist Craig Marshall Smith, three of his friends,
three of his former college art students, and the 13-year-old daughter of his photographer.
Drawings, paintings, photographs, collages, and digital images are featured adjacent
to short biographies of twenty-six individuals in the arts, from "A" for Audrey Hepburn to "Z"
for ZaSu Pitts. Others include "H" for Harper Lee, "L" for Luis Buñuel, and "R" for
Robert Frank.
Buster Keaton, Claude Debussy, Groucho Marx, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, whose
namesake is a young Frankenstein, brilliantly drawn by medical illustrator Brett Ganyard, that
shows a boy creating his own stuffed dachshund.
With permission from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Giacomo Balla's Dynamism of a Dog
on a Leash , art history's most famous dachshund, is a bonus twenty-seventh.
(Like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, look for a hidden name in the author's painting of Nina .)
Although Twenty-Six Dachshunds is intended for all ages, the images are examples of
fine art, not cartooning.
77 pages, Paperback
Published July 9, 2021
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