Great Monsterpieces

Illustrator	Tom Brannon
Published	1989
Publisher	Western Publishing
Pages	16
ISBN	0307015572

Illustrator	Tom Brannon
Published	2001
Publisher	Random House
Pages	18
ISBN	0375811400

Great Monsterpieces is a 1989 Sesame Street "Paint 'n' Marker" book with illustrations by Tom Brannon spoofing a number of famous artworks.

It was reissued in 2001 as Museum of Monster Art with two pages of stickers and photo puppet recreations of two pieces for the front and back cover by John E. Barrett with art direction by Laurent Linn and styling by Danielle Obinger.

Both covers feature different versions of Cookie Monster as the Mona Lisa.

original cover

2001 cover

Ernie as an Egyptian mummy tomb

Prairie Dawn and Grover in American Gothic by Grant Wood

Cookie Monster as Mona Lisa

Grover and Grover's Mommy in The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

Honkers in Dance by Henri Matisse

Betty Lou as The Little Dancer of Fourteen Years by Edgar Degas

Herry Monster as The Thinker by Auguste Rodin

Ernie in Triple Self-Portrait by Norman Rockwell

Elmo as Small Boy with Birds and Cats by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Bert, Ernie, and Elmo in Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso

Big Bird in an Andy Warhol

Grover, Cookie Monster, Herry Monster, and Elmo in Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet

Granny Bird in Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler

Barkley and Bert in Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau

Grover and Grover's Mommy in The Child's Bath by Mary Cassatt

Cookie Monster in a Roy Lichtenstein

Betty Lou and Grover in American Gothic by Grant Wood

See also

• Museum of Monster Art (coloring book)