“My plan while spending three months at the Academy, was to create about 1,000 drawings or paintings. That seemed like a plausible amount. The amount of drawings I ended up doing was 15, I think. More than a dozen, for sure. What happened during those three months? What delicious sleepwalking was this? In my wanderings, I bumped into a lot of other people from the American Academy wandering about in a dream.” Maira Kalman, AFAAR’12

Maira Kalman is an author and illustrator of books for children (including What Pete Ate, Looking at Lincoln) and adults (including The Principles of Uncertainty and And the Pursuit of Happiness). She has created illustrated editions of Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style, and Michael Pollan's FOOD RULES. She is a cover artist for The New Yorker and has created two illustrated on-line columns for The New York Times. She is represented by the Julie Saul Gallery and lives in NYC.

The Home from Rome series is made possible by the new New Initiatives for Don Fund, a gift of Maria R. Cox.