Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature
and Cartoon
Caricature and Cartoon in Twentieth-Century America
The Library of Congress and The National Portrait Gallery held
a joint conference Caricature and Cartoon in Twentieth-Century
America on Friday, May 15, 1998 and Saturday, May 16, 1998.
Papers read at The National Portrait Gallery, 8th & F Streets,
NW, Washington, DC 20560
- Moderator: Alan Fern, Director, National Portrait Gallery
- The Celebrity Caricature
Vogue: Wendy Wick Reaves, Curator of Prints and
Drawings, National Portrait Gallery
- "A Gentle, If Sometimes
Mordant Irony": The Life and Times of Al Frueh:
Thomas P. Bruhn, William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut,
Storrs
- Ralph Barton: Affectionate
Insults: Bruce Kellner, Author and Professor Emeritus
of English, Millersville University
- Anything Goes: Caricature
after 1960: Edward Sorel, Author and Caricaturist
Papers read at the Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101
Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20540-4730
Related exhibitions: Celebrity
Caricature in America at the National Portrait Gallery
as well as Monstrous Craws and Character Flaws and Oliphant's
Anthem at the Library of Congress.
The conference was funded by Mrs. John Timberlake Gibson, the
Kiplinger Foundation, the Caroline and Erwin Swann Memorial Fund
for Caricature and Cartoon, and the Swann Foundation Fund.
For information, email us at: swann@loc.gov
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