"On the Money: Cartoons for The New Yorker From the Melvin R. Seiden Collection" Exhibition
The Morgan Library & Museum
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Celebrating the art of the cartoonist, the exhibition features approximately eighty original drawings by some of The New Yorker's most talented and beloved artists who have tackled the theme of money and the many ways in which it defines us. The works are drawn entirely from the collection of Melvin R. Seiden, a longtime supporter of the Morgan, who has assembled one of the largest and most representative private selections of this art form which spans the history of The New Yorker. The Seiden collection of New Yorker cartoons, numbering nearly 1,500 sheets, complements the Morgan's holdings in the history of satire and humor, which range from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Following the great cartoonists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—including James Gillray, H. K. Browne a.k.a. Phiz, and Honoré Daumier, in whose works the Morgan's collection is particularly rich— the artists represented in this exhibition continue the thread of chronicling contemporary attitudes.
[Image: Joseph Farris "A very special interest to see you, Senator" (28 June, 1993) Pen and black ink, gray wash, with touches of white gouache Melvin R. Seiden Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum
Photography by Joseph Zehavi, 2008. © The New Yorker Collection 1993 Joseph Farris from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved.]
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Schedule
from January 23, 2009 to May 24, 2009
Artist(s)
Charles Barsotti, George Booth, Dana Fradon, Lee Lorenz, William Hamilton, J. B. Handelsman et al.