Avenue Magazine
Cover artwork for Avenue Magazine  Maurice Vellekoop was commissioned to do the Cover and two inside spots. The story is about the advantages of different neighbourhoods in the city.
August 7, 2012
Preview Van Parties on YouTube
Maurice Vellekoop did all the artwork for the book.
July 4, 2012
The Tarot Reader
Here is a picture Maurice created for advertising for “Mâ€, a Tarot reader who lives and works on Toronto Island. Maurice used a combination of media here. It has a kind of children’s-book-meets-medieval-illuminated-manuscript feel.
June 27, 2012Maurice Vellekoop gets interviewed on his Comics
June 13, 2012
“The Letter Q, Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves†is a brand new anthology and Maurice Vellekoop is one of the contributors.
May 8, 2012May/June 2012 AppliedArts
Check out the new 2012 Photography & Illustration Awards Winners. Maurice Vellekoop is listed for Cartoon/Comic illustration/Series, for Gloria Badcock. Stephanie Power is listed under Poster Illustration for her Transit shelter poster for the Dairy Farmers of Canada Teen Campaign.
Operation Champagne – Magazine Spread
1999…. Maurice Vellekoop was commissioned to do a seven page editorial feature for Enroute Magazine.
Black, White and Rose – New Gouaches by Maurice Vellekoop
Above is a portrait of Fleur Cowles from a 2003 piece in the NY Times magazine. The Balenciaga dress is the same she wore to Elizabeth the Second’s coronation in 1952!
Balenciaga happens to be another Vellekoop obsession…his late work from the ’60s – modernity steeped in historicism.
The de Young sisters at the de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, also from an Aarons photograph.
Here is a portrait of Babe Paley, one of Truman Capote’s “swansâ€.
Here is a portrait of Ms. Dunaway in her role of Bonnie from the film “Bonnie and Clydeâ€.
April 2, 2012Maurice Vellekoop helps Harry Rosen Markdown
The Nook Salon – featuring Maurice Vellekoop
A public event by Sandra Dionisi
Nook is pleased to present a series of salons throughout the year, featuring conversations with and presentations by special guests for the purposes of education, entertainment and enjoyment.
On January 25th, the Nook Salon features an evening with the artist Maurice Vellekoop.
We’ll discuss his influences and inspiration, as well as his recently published graphic novel “Gloria Badcock†and what’s in the future for this unique and fascinating bon vivant.
7:00 – 8:00pm: Maurice Vellekoop in conversation with Sandra Dionisi
8:00 – 9:00pm: Coffee and Social Hour
NOOK 156 Augusta Avenue, Kensington Market,Toronto, ON M5T 2L4
