Print Room Talks: Comedy and Criticism

Join Curator of Prints and Drawings Sachi Yanari-Rizzo for an in-depth discussion of a topic related to the museum’s rich collection of works on paper. These informal talks are held in the Print and Drawing Study Center, a unique, hybrid storage and gallery space where visitors can experience the wonders of printmaking in an intimate setting.

COMEDY AND CRITICISM: Satire in 19^TH and early 20^th Century Europe and North America

Print Talk: Nov. 13

Most people are familiar with political cartoons that grace the editorial sections of newspapers. The use of humor helps take the sharp sting out of political commentary. However, artists making social and political commentaries is nothing new. This exhibition features artists who used humor and satire in the late 19th century through the first decades of the 20th century.  Many of the works were published for the masses in newspapers and broadsheets.  Common traits include a facility for characterization in few lines and exaggeration of form and movement.

Included are works by Honoré Daumier, Francisco de Goya, George Grosz, Guadalupe Posada, and American artists William Gropper, Thomas Nast, among others.