In the News-Editorial Cartoon Exhibit in Chicago

SOFA Chicago 2011

SOFA Chicago 2011, an annual art fair held in the Windy City, begins tonight, Thursday, November 3, 2011, at the Navy Pier Festival Hall, 600 East Grand Avenue. Among the events is "Cartooning in Conflict," an exhibition of editorial cartoons. SOFA Chicago 2011 runs through Sunday, November 6. For more information, see the website of Chicago Now. And to find Chicago, just drive west out of Indiana and look for the signs.

Copyright 2011, 2024 Terence E. Hanley

In the News-Arturo Rodriguez

Cartoon-Inspired Art by Arturo Rodriguez on Display

The work of graphic artist Arturo Rodriguez, associate professor at the University of Toledo, is the subject of an exhibit at the Madhouse Gallery in Toledo, Ohio, June 15-30, 2011. Born in Cuba, Mr. Rodriguez moved to Miami at age seven and began watching animated cartoons dating from the 1930s onward. He later studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and received his masters degree from Indiana University. Images from the cartoons he watched as a child have now found their way into his lithographs and serigraphs. Read the full story at the Toledo Blade, here.

Copyright 2011, 2024 Terence E. Hanley

In The News-Baseball Art Exhibit

Baseball Art Exhibit in Indianapolis

In honor of 125 consecutive years of professional baseball in Indianapolis, the National Art Museum of Sport (NAMOS) is placing more than forty-five original works of art on display at its home in the Circle City. Included are works by John Groth, Ray Ellis, Dan Edwards, and cartoonist Willard Mullin, named the Sports Cartoonist of the Century by the National Cartoonists Society (NCS). The exhibit begins Friday, May 6, 2011, and runs through the end of the Indianapolis Indians' baseball season, until Wednesday, October 5, 2011. The museum, founded in 1959, is located at 850 West Michigan Street, just west of downtown, and is free and open to the public. You can read more about NAMOS and its exhibit at the museum's website. You can also read a press release at the official website of Minor League Baseball. As for Willard Mullin, see the Willard Mullin Website created by illustrator Bob Staake, here.

Sports cartoonist Willard Mullin (1902-1978) is among the artists whose work is on display at the National Art Museum of Sport (NAMOS) in Indianapolis, May 6-Oct. 5, 2011. Here's a cartoon by Mullin showing sluggers Babe Ruth and Hank Greenberg. My dad tells me that his father saw Babe Ruth and a group of barnstorming players in an exhibition game at University Park in Indianapolis, probably in the late 1910s or early 1920s. The building housing the art exhibit is probably not far from the site of that game. It could even be on the same spot. And so the circle closes.

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