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

• Moderator: Linda Ayres, Chief, Prints and Photographs Divison, Library of Congress
• With Crayon and Ink: The Masses and the Revolution in Cartooning: Sara W. Duke, Curatorial Project Assistant for Caricature and Cartoon, Library of Congress
• Ollie Harrington: Cartoonist in Exile at Home and Abroad: Christine McKay and Nashormeh Lindo, Independent Scholars
• Mauldin Dons His Mufti: Frederick S. Voss, Historian-Curator, National Portrait Gallery
• Oliphant's Anthem: Pat Oliphant, Syndicated Cartoonist

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.