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The Shoes of Our Lost Icons Are Still Full of Life

The Shoes of Our Lost Icons Are Still Full of Life

Eric CarleB. 1929 To paint in his studio in Northampton, Mass., Eric Carle — who illustrated and wrote dozens of picture books, most famously “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” — outfitted himself in a white smock in the style of a doctor’s lab coat and a dedicated pair of black lace-up Italian dress shoes that he would wear nowhere else. “It …

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