David Abbey Paige
The David Abbey Paige Pastel Drawings
OSU Faculty Club
Through April 25, 2008
181 S. Oval Dr.
Pastel drawings from the collections of the Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program.
February 26th, 2008
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Anne Mergen: Editorial Cartoonist
Anne Mergen: Editorial Cartoonist
The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library
February 1 – April 11, 2008
27 W. 17th Ave. Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
Anne Mergen’s editorial cartoons chronicle history from the Great Depression through the Cold War. During that time, she was the only woman in the nation working as an editorial cartoonist.
Mergen was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1906. She studied commercial art in Chicago before moving to Miami in the mid 1920s to work as a fashion advertising artist for a local department store. When the Miami Daily News, part of the Cox newspaper chain, hired her as its editorial cartoonist in 1933, she was the only woman editorial cartoonist in the United States, a status that continued until her retirement in 1956. She continued to have cartoons published as late as 1959.
She had a home studio and all of the contemporary press coverage about her career celebrates the fact that she drew her editorial cartoons only after fulfilling her duties as wife and mother to two children. In addition to being published in the Miami Daily News, her cartoons were published in other Cox newspapers including the Atlanta Journal and the Dayton News.
The editorial cartoons in this exhibit range from Mergen’s take on Goebbels’ propaganda to the advent of nuclear power. She was a thoughtful commentator on the events of her time and her work merits wider recognition.
Anne Mergen died in 1994. The cartoons in this exhibition were donated to the Cartoon Research Library by her grandchildren, Matthew Bernhardt and Christine Hoverman. The Anne Mergen Collection at the Cartoon Research Library contains almost 600 original editorial cartoons documenting her work. This exhibit is free and open to the public.
January 29th, 2008
Schwartz Exhibit Reception 11/9
Program/Reception
Lillian Feldman Schwartz Collection
Friday, November 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
The OSU Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr.
Please join OSU President E. Gordon Gee and artist Lillian Feldman Schwartz for a presentation and reception celebrating the opening of an exhibit featuring a selection of the artist’s works. Schwartz is widely recognized as one of the most significant figures in the development of what is now routinely referred to as “computer art.” The exhibition offers a sampling of the wide range of Schwartz’s works. The focus is primarily on two-dimensional works-early paintings and collages dating to before her work with computers began, through works from 1968 to the present done on the computer.
November 8th, 2007
Lillian Schwartz Collection
Lillian Feldman Schwartz Collection
November 1-December 18
The OSU Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr.
Lillian Schwartz is widely recognized as one of the most significant figures in the development of what is now routinely referred to as “computer art.” The exhibition offers a sampling of the wide range of Schwartz’s works. The focus is primarily on two-dimensional works–early paintings and collages dating to before her work with computers began, through works from 1968 to the present done on the computer.
October 29th, 2007
Rarities: The Caniff Collection
Rarities: Unusual Works from the Caniff Collection
September 4, 2007 - January 19, 2008
Cartoon Research Library, 27 W. 17th Ave. Mall
Milton Caniff was a saver, and he was the son of a saver. As a result, the Milton Caniff Collection, the founding collection of The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library, is enormous - nearly 12,000 original artworks by Caniff, 85 boxes of memorabilia, and more than 450 boxes of manuscript materials, fan letters, and business records. This exhibition celebrates the richness of the Caniff Collection and provides insight into the work, friendships, and influence of one of the twentieth century’s great cartoonists.
September 19th, 2007
Thurber: Sex, War & Dogs
“Unpublished and Uncensored: Sex, War & Dogs,”
Thurber Center Gallery, 91 Jefferson Ave.
Through September 14
This is the premier exhibition of 39 unpublished drawings by James Thurber from the 1930’s and 40’s, selected from 62 drawings that came to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library from the estate of book and film critic Nora Sayre, a close friend of the Thurber family. For exhibit hours and information, please contact Thurber House at 614-464-1032.
June 27th, 2007
To Be Continued:Comic Strip Storytelling
OSU Cartoon Research Library
Reading Room
27 W. 17th. Ave. Mall
June 18 – August 24
Will Annie be reunited with Daddy Warbucks? Will L’il Abner ever marry Daisy Mae? Will Pogo win the election? Find out in tomorrow’s paper! “To Be Continued: Comic Strip Storytelling” presents compelling continuity stories from a century of newspaper comic strips. The exhibition, on display in the Cartoon Research Library’s Reading Room from June 18 to August 24, features ten examples of stories from the funnies that kept Americans talking, speculating, and, most importantly, buying newspapers.
Before the advent of the TV cliffhanger, there was the story comic strip. Soon after the birth of the newspaper comics in the 1890s, editors and cartoonists discovered that continuity story strips brought readers back day after day to learn what would become of their favorite comic strip characters. In the early 1900’s, Lyonel Feininger sent his Kin-der-kids on a wild ocean voyage in a bathtub while Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo wandered from one adventure to another in Slumberland’s Befuddle Hall.
In the 1920s, cartoonist Sidney Smith received mountains of mail from readers when he killed off Mary Gold, just moments before her true love reached her side, having just been released from jail after being wrongfully accused of stealing. Almost 80 years later, Lynn Johnston received a similar response when she drew the death of the family’s beloved dog, Farley in her family strip, For Better or For Worse.
Adventure strips, which reached their heyday in the 1930s and ‘40s, featured kids like Little Orphan Annie and heroes like Flash Gordon narrowly escaping certain doom week after week. These contrasted with the quotidian stories chronicling the lives of the residents of Gasoline Alley and the hillbilly Li’l Abner, who created a national frenzy when he finally married Daisy Mae in 1952.
Cartoonists have also used story strips to address political and social issues, as Walt Kelly did when his character Pogo campaigned for President in 1952 and as Garry Trudeau did when he drew attention to the AIDS epidemic through the illness and death of his character Andy in Doonesbury.
The stories chosen for this exhibition represent the evolution, the variety and the impact of continuity storytelling in newspaper comics over the last century. This exhibit is part of Storytelling 2007, a year-long celebration of graphic narrative, commemorating the centennial of the birth of master storyteller, Milton Caniff. Caniff is not included in this exhibition because the Cartoon Research Library will be mounting a retrospective exhibition of his work in the fall.
Panel from Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon, November 10, 1935. Flash Gordon © King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduced with permission.
June 7th, 2007
Libraries Chosen for Franklin Exhibit
The American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities have announced that the OSU Libraries hav been selected as one of the sites for the traveling exhibit “Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World.”
The exhibition for libraries will consist of six sections of colorful, freestanding photo-panels incorporating representations of artifacts from the original Franklin exhibition, and a new text written by the curator. Exhibition content is arranged in thematic sections showing Franklin in the Boston of his youth, Franklin’s family and personal life, as well as the years when he built his business as Philadelphia’s premier printer. The exhibit also looks at Franklin’s commitment to public service, his interests in medicine and public health, and his work in science and philosophy. Franklin’s political career in England, France and the United States, and his contributions to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and other major documents are the subjects of the final two sections of the exhibit.
The exhibit will be one of the early exhibits in the renovated Thompson Library after it reopens in the summer of 2009. For more information, see the ALA press release.
June 7th, 2007
Will Eisner Exhibition
Will Eisner
April 2-June 8
Weekdays, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Cartoon Research Library
27 W. 17th Ave. Mall
Will Eisner was one of the great cartoonists of the 20th century. He created the comic feature The Spirit, wrote the early graphic novel “A Contract with God,” and taught succeeding generations of cartoonists for many years at the School of Visual Arts. Eisner also produced two seminal works of comics theory, “Comics and Sequential Art” and “Graphic Storytelling.” In the last decade of his life, he wrote or adapted a dozen graphic volumes, culminating with “The Plot: the Secret History of the Protocols of Zion,” which was published shortly before his death in 2005. “Will Eisner: Storyteller” draws from the Cartoon Research Library’s Will Eisner Collection to celebrate highlights of his life and career through rare photographs and original art. The exhibit opens with samples of Eisner’s early work and includes two complete Spirit stories from the 1940s as well as art from his recent books such as “Sundiata” and “Last Day in Vietnam.” Eisner’s contributions to cartooning were recognized through numerous international honors including awards from the prestigious festivals in AngoulÍme, France, and Barcelona, Spain. He received the Reuben Award, the National Cartoonists Society’s highest honor, in 1998.
May 11th, 2007
