If you visit KurtVonnegut.com you'll find just one of his images... the bird cage with the open door. An appropriate image for a sad commemoration.
© Kurt Vonnegut, Joe Petro III
The rest of the website is (temporarily?) disabled, but you can still see the graphic work of Kurt Vonnegut through the Wayback Machine.
The overview of the graphic work of Kurt Vonnegut can be found here:
Less generally familiar than the fiction, however, are Vonnegut's creations in the graphic arts. These reveal the same postmodern heterogeneity of mode and subject found in the fiction-realism and abstraction, the fantastic and the mundane, sentiment and irony, humor and melancholy.
Kurt Vonnegut at an exhibition of his work:
And here's Vonnegut's statement on his graphic work:
I asked the famously effective satiric draftsman Saul Steinberg if he was gifted. He said he was not, but that the appeal of many graphic works of art was the evident struggle of their creators with their obvious limitations. Put another way by me: We like some works by some artists who couldn't do what Michelangelo could do, but who damn well made pictures anyway.
I asked many people more committed than I am to the making of pictures by hand when it was taht their art gave them the most satisfaction. When it was framed and exhibited? When it was published or sold? When it was praised by loved ones or an important critic? When? Three of those I asked were my own daughters Edith and Nanette, and my son Mark. Few I asked were world renown.
All replied without hesitation that they were most at one with the universe when making a picture in perfect solitude. All the rest was by comparison annoying balderdash. I say that, too.
And let me add that the pictures in this catalog are the works of two persons, myself and the silk-screen virtuoso Joe Petro III of Lexington, Kentucky, each of us working alone, and experiencing from time to time almost indecent ecstasy.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
August 23rd, 1997
Sagaponack, NY
On November 11, 2002 the Mayor of New York declared it Kurt Vonnegut Day to mark the writer's (and artist's) 80th birthday. It's a laugh to read it...
And so it goes.