The Grinch by Virgil Ross

This piece is so awesome! I remember seeing this under an auction preview and I instantly connected with it. When it came time for auction, I made sure not to miss it. I must have missed posting it on Christmas last year as it was still pending to be posted. However, in the spirit of hanging lights up at the house this weekend and today being the first of December, I think it is only proper to post it.

My daughters love the Grinch, and they even had a phase where they tried watching him all year long. As a kid, I remember my parents shopping around trying to get a Grinch Hallmark ornament. The only collectable Hallmark ornament I ever remembered them going after.

Virgil Ross was not an animator for the original Grinch cartoon from my understanding, but he had a very significant animation career. One of the works he is noted to have animated for was a 1982 short called “The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat”. However, this animation cell was created as a collector's piece from my understanding for the Warner Bros. store circa the 1990’s. Additional notation from the auction is as follows:

Great depiction of Dr. Seuss' classic Grinch by Ross, one of the great Warner Brothers animators. Ross, who lived into his 80s and retained all of his artistic abilities, created a series of drawings recreating famous scenes from cartoons he worked on to be sold as part of the 'Master's Collection' through the Warner Bros. Stores. Colored pencils on animation paper. Art is in excellent condition. Signed by Ross.