Illustration Exhibitions Archives - The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies

What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine

June 8, 2024 through October 27, 2024

This exhibition explores the unforgettable art and satire of MAD, from its beginnings in 1952 as a popular humor comic book to its emergence as a beloved magazine that spoke truth to power and attracted generations of devoted readers through the decades. MAD’s influence and cultural impact will be explored in this landmark installation, which features iconic original illustrations and cartoons created by the magazine’s Usual Gang of Idiots—the many artists and writers who have been the publication’s mainstays for decades. These include Sergio Aragonés, David Berg, Paul Coker, Jack Davis, Dick DeBartolo, Mort Drucker, Will Elder, John Ficarra, Kelly Freas, Al Jaffee, Harvey Kurtzman, Don Martin, Nick Meglin, Norman Mingo, Antonio Prohías, Marie Severin, John Severin, Angelo Torres, Sam Viviano, Richard Williams, and Wally Wood. The art of next generation visual humorists, including Emily Flake, Drew Friedman, Peter Kuper, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, C.F. Payne, Tom Richmond, and Dale Stephanos, will also be on view.

Rich Bradway2024-06-10T12:42:28-04:00June 10th, 2024|Illustration Exhibitions, News|0 Comments

Currently at the Norman Rockwell Museum

Mort Künstler: The Art of Adventure November 8, 2014 through March 8, 2015 Known for his meticulously researched historical paintings, Mort Künstler is also a prolific illustrator who has worked on a broad spectrum of assignments for more than sixty years―from paperback book jackets and men’s adventure magazine illustrations to movie posters, model kit boxes,

SPlunkett2016-11-14T10:19:04-05:00November 21st, 2014|Illustration Exhibitions|0 Comments

Illustration Partners

Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA Cabinet of American Illustration, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Center for Historic American Visual Culture, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA Farnsworth Museum, Rockport, ME Geppi’s Entertainment Museum, Baltimore, MD Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, MO The Illustrated

Barbara Rundback2014-12-11T16:19:42-05:00May 25th, 2009|Illustration Exhibitions|Comments Off

MICA

MFA Illustration Practice Critical Seminar, winter semester 2012 Seeing is Believing: The Virtual Exhibit This semester the MICA graduate students in Illustration Practice produced a virtual exhibition from initial concept to completion. From the start of this semester in January students were assured that each of their projects would be accessible online. Click on the pdf notation

Barbara Rundback2013-08-23T09:46:47-04:00May 25th, 2009|Illustration Exhibitions|0 Comments