Myra (painting) Myra (painting) Myra is a large painting created by Marcus Harvey in 1995. It was displayed at the "Sensation" exhibition of Young British Artists at the Royal Academy of Art in London from 8 September to 28 December 1997. The work measures . At first sight, it resembles a greatly magnified version of a black and white photograph printed in a newspaper. It was made using casts of an infant's hand to build up a mosaic of black, grey and white handprints, creating a reproduction of the iconic police photograph of a hard-faced Myra Hindley with bouffant peroxide blonde hair
Leonard S. Marcus Brown: Awakened by the Moon" (Beacon, 1992; Harper Perennial, 1999) -"A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal" (Walker, 1998) -"The Making of Goodnight Moon: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective" (HarperCollins, 1997) -"Morrow Junior Books: The First Fifty Years" (Morrow, 1996) -"75 Years of Children’s Book Week Posters" (Knopf, 1994) -"Lifelines: A Poetry Anthology" (Dutton, 1994) -"Mother Goose's Little Misfortunes" (Bradbury, 1990) -"Humor and Play in Children's Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 1989) -"An Epinal Album: Popular Prints from Nineteenth-Century France" (Godine, 1984) -"Picture Books" (Johns Hopkins UP, 1984) -"Petrouchka" (Godine, 1983) Leonard S. Marcus Leonard S. Marcus