Minneapolis Institute of Art
Saturday, June 28, 2008—Sunday, December 7, 2008
Gallery 315
Free Exhibition
Forty caricature prints and drawings from the MIA’s permanent collection present social satire that both bristles and entertains. Its examines the comic art form in eighteenth-century England, in the work of some of the period’s most celebrated caricaturists—William Hogarth (1697-1764), Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), and James Gillray (1756-1815).
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The Art and Wit of Caricature: Honoré Daumier
Saturday, June 28, 2008—Sunday, December 7, 2008
Gallery 316
Free Exhibition
Selected from more than 3,000 lithographs by Honoré Daumier (1808–79) in the MIA collection. Most came to the museum as a group in 1924, purchased from the collection of French actress Sarah Bernhardt. Many of them illuminate the major themes that fascinated this extraordinary artist.
I think these exhibits iare great! I've never really seen anything like them besides political satires in the papers.
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