Jon Klassen

Your Rock, 2026

Screenprint w/ Marks
10.0 H × 13.0 W in

Limited Edition of 100 Three-Color Screenprint w/ Hand-Made Marks by the Artist Signed + Numbered

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The Edition

Klassen drawing an eye.

The artist in his L.A. studio

Ever-fascinated by rocks and stones and their visual rhymes, Jon Klassen and Marta Editions are delighted to make available a very special limited print Edition, entitled Your Rock (2026). A three-color screenprint in a signed and numbered Edition of one hundred, the prints are also hand-embellished by the artist, dovetailing Klassen’s admiration for these inanimate forms with the undeniable power of anthropomorphization: in this case, the hand-rendered addition of a pair of eyes to each composition.

Prismacolor vs. Copic

“Removing [the narrator] adds this weird silence between the lines that I love, and I write to those silent pauses as much as anything.” — Jon Klassen

Each print is signed...

...and numbered.

Riffing on forms and themes that have long appeared in Klassen’s oeuvre—from houses shaped like stones (Cave, 2020) to inexplicably falling boulders (The Rock from the Sky, 2021)—Your Rock follows the play-logic of the preceding Your Horse (2024) and Your Truck (2026), with Klassen simultaneously rendering the child-like adult, and the grown-up jejune.

Your Rock (2026)

Each print in the Edition of one hundred has been hand-signed and -numbered by the artist. Each eye—all two hundred of them!—has been hand-drawn by Klassen in his Los Angeles studio, making each of these works wholly unique and still part of a much larger, extended family: apropos for the artist’s output.

The Work

Cave (2020)

Bowl (2020)

Jon Klassen is a Canadian artist, writer, and illustrator based in Los Angeles, working across picture books and animation. His work sits with moral ambiguity as a quiet companion—stories where things go wrong, characters lie, and endings arrive without apology. Recent preoccupations include hats as objects of desire and consequence, the expressive power of eyes held very still, and what a picture can say that a narrator refuses to.

Your Forest (2025)

Your Farm (2025)

Your Island (2025)

Excerpt from I Want My Hat Back (2011)

Across publications that be both writes and illustrates, and in tandem with talents like Mac Barnett, Klassen is fascinated with the act of bringing the traditionally inanimate to life; and with enlivening the already-animate via deep and meaningful humanization. He often does this in merely a few frames; with Your Rock (2026), he manages to do so in just one.

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Triangle (2017)

Square (2018)

Circle (2019)

The Studio

Your Rock on Jon’s desktop.

A corner of Klassen’s L.A. studio.

Working variously from his home studio and a shared creative office on the East side of Los Angeles, Klassen works across books, animation, drawing, writing, and object-making. In his home studio, he surrounds himself with prints, editions, and artworks by some of his favorite forebears, among them Bruno Munari and Dick Bruna.

Carved and painted trees and dwellings.

Characters, several from Shape Island (2023).

Here at his working studio, where we visited with photographer and colleague Erik Benjamins, Klassen exercises / exorcises ongoing distillations of form via paper-cutting, pulling from his growing collection of vintage and deadstock construction papers. Indeed, some of his most well-known compositions start on the brownboard that commonly backs pads of drawing paper.

It is also here where maquettes of Klassen’s prototypical trees and dwellings reside alongside models of some of the characters that populate Apple TV's Shape Island, which Klassen co-created with longtime collaborator Mac Barnett.

Calendar and clock amidst cut paper forms.

Klassen’s collection of vintage papers.

“This medium works best when it’s most suggestive; when it gives us the freedom to walk around and fill in these things on our own.” — Jon Klassen

Klassen at work.

Jon Klassen (US) Your Rock, 2026 Three-Color Screenprint w/ Hand-Made Marks by the Artist 10.0 H × 13.0 W in. (25.4 H × 33.0 W cm) Edition of 100 + 10 AP Signed + Numbered Printing: Serigraphy Printer: Lézard Graphique; Strasbourg, FR Paper: Arena Smooth Ivory, 300gsm PMS 4745 U PMS 7530 U PMS Black U

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Jon Klassen

Your Rock, 2026

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