Signed by Kevin Eslinger
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About this artwork
Frog was painted in 2011, several years after I led the development of Master Replicas’ authentic Kermit the Frog Photo Puppet Replica.
I had pushed the idea forward before we had a budget or approval, brought the first prototype into Disney, assembled the specialists who could build it correctly, and helped carry the project from an unlikely proposal into a limited production run of 2,500 replicas.
Kermit was supposed to be the beginning. I had the opportunity to continue developing a full line of Muppet photo-puppet replicas, but Master Replicas imploded before that future could be realized. When I started painting, I was haunted by what I had come so close to making.
This frog came from that unfinished chapter. It is less a portrait of a particular character than an image of a lost opportunity—the creative life that might have followed, and the one I had to rebuild through painting.
Read the 2006 Muppet Central review and development history.
Print details
11 × 14-inch print on 100 lb paper.
Signed by Kevin Eslinger.
Original artwork created in 2011.