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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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