'Peanuts' Murals On Display In The West Village

WEST VILLAGE, NY — A new collection of seven murals featuring characters from the beloved "Peanuts" comics debuted this month in the West Village.

The murals come from seven different artists who together form the Peanuts Global Artists Collective. With Peanuts Worldwide, the company that manages the rights to the "Peanuts" characters, the artists are creating murals in seven cities throughout the world this spring, with more art to come in the fall, according to the collective's website.

"Though Charles M. Schulz stopped short of calling himself an artist, his line, characters, and the emotional stories he told have influenced innumerable authors, filmmakers, songwriters, painters, and sculptors," the collective said in a statement. "Among those are the seven fine artists who comprise The Peanuts Global Artist Collective, an unprecedented global initiative in which the beloved Peanuts characters will be brought to life in new and exciting ways for the public to experience, giving the gift of art to everyone."

American artists Rob Pruitt, Nina Chanel Abney and Kenny Scharf are among those who contributed to the murals in New York City and throughout the world.

"I have loved Peanuts since I was a kid," Pruitt wrote on the collective's website. "In fact, I think i taught myself how to draw by copying Peanuts characters and strips over and over, especially the details -- the grass, the snow, the wobbly line."

The murals are clustered with a few blocks of each other in the West Village, and the route is designed so that you can either begin or end your route at the Children's Museum of the Arts, 103 Charlton St. You can find a map of the murals here.

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