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REVISITING THE COMIC ART SHOW
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, DOWNTOWN GALLERY, 1983


              Presented by Kim Munson, PCA/ACA St. Louis, 2010
First art exhibition produced by a major
                   New York art museum to display comic art,
                   graffiti, pop art and the post-modern art of the
                   East Village art scene together as equal
                   works of art.

                   Co-curated by John Carlin (Masters of
                   American Comics, Imagining America) &
                   Sheena Wagstaff (Comics Iconoclasm,
                   currently Chief Curator at Tate Modern
                   London).

                   This show ultimately brought together the circle of
                   people that produced Masters of American
                   Comics in LA (2005). Spiegelman, Carlin, Brian
                   Walker & Anne Philbin, plus many artists.




Downtown gallery at Federal Hall (26 Wall Street), NY
The show concept was inspired by a class
                            Carlin was teaching as a grad student at
                            Yale called Popular Iconography and his
                            deep involvement in the new generation of
                            punk, pop and underground artists creating
                            a big stir in the East Village.


1960’s                  1980’s




         1980’s Art and Comix in Transition.
Spiegelman, who was working on Raw and just
                        beginning Maus, became Carlin’s mentor on this
                        project, introducing him to many collectors.

                        John Carlin: “Rick Marschall, Pete Maresca and
                        Bill Blackbeard, are the three people that
                        saved printed newspaper comics from oblivion
                        at a time when they were being thrown away
                        and no institution in America saw any value in
                        them. They preserved them. They bought the
                        bound volumes and kept them. Now they're all
                        in Ohio. If those three men hadn’t kept them,
                        they wouldn't exist. It's really kind of a heroic
                        story, it would be a great documentary. .”
                        (5/09)




                        Winsor McCay (1869-1934)
                        Little Sammy Sneeze, 1905 (Sunday)
                        Ink, crayon, wash on paper
                        Collection of Ray Moniz




The Comics Collectors
Comic Artists
                                                                     Ernie Bushmiller   Chester Gould                         Winsor McCay
                                                                     Milton Caniff      Harold Grey                           Richard Outcault
                                                                     Al Capp            Bill Griffith                         Gary Panter
                                                                     R. Crumb           Milt Gross                            Alex Raymond
                                                                     Will Eisner        George Herriman                       E.C. Segar
                                                                     Lyonel Feininger   Bill Holman                           Joe Shuster
                                                                     H.C. Fisher        Robert Kane                           Art Spiegelman
                                                                     Rube Goldberg      Walt Kelly                            Cliff Sterrett
                                                                                        Frank King                            Garry Trudeau
                                                                                        Harvey Kurtzman & Wally Wood
                                                                                        Stan Lee & Jack Kirby




Painters & Sculptors
Roger Brown           Roy Lichtenstein           Alexis Smith
Ronnie Cutrone        Jim Nutt                   Saul Steinberg
Stuart Davis          Claes Oldenburg            Andy Warhol
Oyvind Fahlstrom      Suzan Pitt                 John Wesley
John Fawcett          Lee Quinones               Karl Wirsum
Vernon Fisher         Mel Ramos                  Ray Yoshida
Steve Gianakos        Robert Rauschenberg        Anonymous (2)
Keith Haring          Ad Reinhardt
Jess                  David Salle
Jasper Johns          Kenny Scharf
                                                                                                       Richard Outcault. The Yellow Kid 1896
                                                                                                       Art Spiegelman. Two-Fisted Painters, 1982
Plus additional works by Henry Chalfant, The Hairy Who & C. Comics                                     Stuart Davis. Lucky Strike, 1924
                                                                                                       Keith Haring. Untitled, 1981




                                   Who was in the show.
Gary Panter (b. 1950). Jimbo, 1981
                                                                   Suzan Pitt (b. 1943). Untitled, 1983 (Sculpture)
                                                                   Jess (1923-2004). The Truth Shall be Thy Warrant, 1976
                                                                   Ronnie Cutrone (b. 1948). The Price of Liberty is
                                                                   Eternal Vigilance, 1982.




                                                            John Carlin: “I hung the show myself,
                                                            intuitively with no hierarchy, in a way meant
                                                            to give the viewer an intellectually and
                                                            emotionally moving experience.” (5/09)




A wall of drawings by R. Crumb (b. 1943),
Frank King (1883-1969), Cliff Sterrett (1883-1964) &
Art Spiegelman (b. 1948). The small sculpture in the
center is Untiltled, 1974 by Roger Brown (b. 1941).

All exhibition photos courtesy of the Frances Mulhall
Achilles Library at the Whitney Museum of American Art.




                                        Exhibition photos
George Herriman, Krazy Kat, June 11, 1936
                                                                                  Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997). Bugs Bunny, 1958.
                                                                                  David Salle (b. 1952) Untitled. 1961.



                                                                 Jphn Carlin: “The thing that motivated me was
                                                                 this: here you are in the most media saturated
                                                                 culture in human history, and you have this
                                                                 form of expression, like comics, that's constantly
                                                                 on the verge of being literally inaccessible.
                                                                 Americans really don't preserve their own
                                                                 culture. It's a real tragedy, because we have
                                                                 this kind of fear of the things that we like. If we
                                                                 like it and it's popular, then it can't be significant.”
                                                                 (5/09)




George Herriman, Krazy Kat, June 11, 1936
Winsor McCay (1869-1934)
Little Sammy Sneeze, 1905 (Sunday)
Anonymous (American Hopi Indian) Mickey
Mouse doll. painted wood, c. 1950.
Anonymous (Alaskan Eskimo) Olive Oyl doll.
carved ivory. c. 1940.




                                             Exhibition photos
Chester Gould (1900-1985),
Dick Tracy, 1957
John Wesley,(b. 1928).
Bumstead, in a Strait Jacket, 1975.




      These two graphics served as invitations to the opening
      reception and later dance party.

      The opening became a media event, covered by the New
      York Times, WABC TV, WNEW TV, the Village Voice,
      Newsweek, Art in America & others.

      There was also a week long animation festival.


                                      Opening & Events - July 18, 1983.
“Cartoons and Comic Strips fall into the general
category of folk art. They entertain and poke fun,
tickle our funny bone,                                   “Clearly, cartoon characters have transcended
and satirize, but they do not concern themselves with    their identity as mass-produced disposables,
the broader formal or thematic dimensions of             emerging as pictorial icons and psychological
reality that are the                                     symbols .“
basis of more serious forms of art.”                     -David Keeps, Heavy Metal, 11/83
 -Theodore Wolff, Christian Science Monitor,
9/27/83


 “What the Comic Art Show
                                                          “The show is perhaps most successful in its attempt to
 reveals is a strong impulse
                                                          make us see cartoons historically and critically in their
 to valorize the comics by
                                                          hugely satisfying richness, to have us appreciate the
 treating them according to
                                                          special kind of verbal/visual genius necessary to
 a methodology derived from
                                                          create an enduring comic strip.“
 mainstream art history.”
                                                          -Roberta Smith, Village Voice, 8/23/83
 -David Deitcher,
 Art in America, 2/84


“The Comic Art Show seemed to be trying to
hard to prove that comics are art.”                     “What a delight! The cartoon become artoon.”
-Jim Salicrup, quoted in Comics Journal 1/84            -Nicholas Moufarrege. FlashArt, 11/83




                             The critics have their say…
Carlin: “One thing I was always proud to say, was at the
                                                time, and I haven’t checked this since, at the time it was the
                                                only profitable exhibition that the Whitney had ever done.
                                                It made a lot of money. Because I talked Keith Haring into
                                                doing the very first commercially available T-shirt that he
                                                ever did. He was afraid it was going to ruin his reputation.
                                                He was afraid no one would take him seriously...The T-shirts
                                                were probably only 10 bucks, but we might have sold, like,
                                                10,000 T-shirts and 10,000 catalogs.

                                                Somebody uptown at the Whitney got the idea that this
                                                was a show that was so successful that they should've
                                                brought it uptown and re-presented it. And it got me into a
                                                lot of political mess, and basically,
                                                there were some powerful people that just didn't want to
                                                see that happen. Which I always thought was a shame. I
                                                think it's great that the Whitney did this, but I think it
                                                would've been more important, if they had really made it
                                                part of their uptown main museum exhibition schedule.”
Catalog with 7 extensive essays printed by      (5/09)
Fantagraphics in black & white on inexpensive
paper and sold for $2.95 (or $6.95 by mail).




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Revisting The Comic Art Show: Whitney Museum 1983

  • 1. REVISITING THE COMIC ART SHOW WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, DOWNTOWN GALLERY, 1983 Presented by Kim Munson, PCA/ACA St. Louis, 2010
  • 2. First art exhibition produced by a major New York art museum to display comic art, graffiti, pop art and the post-modern art of the East Village art scene together as equal works of art. Co-curated by John Carlin (Masters of American Comics, Imagining America) & Sheena Wagstaff (Comics Iconoclasm, currently Chief Curator at Tate Modern London). This show ultimately brought together the circle of people that produced Masters of American Comics in LA (2005). Spiegelman, Carlin, Brian Walker & Anne Philbin, plus many artists. Downtown gallery at Federal Hall (26 Wall Street), NY
  • 3. The show concept was inspired by a class Carlin was teaching as a grad student at Yale called Popular Iconography and his deep involvement in the new generation of punk, pop and underground artists creating a big stir in the East Village. 1960’s 1980’s 1980’s Art and Comix in Transition.
  • 4. Spiegelman, who was working on Raw and just beginning Maus, became Carlin’s mentor on this project, introducing him to many collectors. John Carlin: “Rick Marschall, Pete Maresca and Bill Blackbeard, are the three people that saved printed newspaper comics from oblivion at a time when they were being thrown away and no institution in America saw any value in them. They preserved them. They bought the bound volumes and kept them. Now they're all in Ohio. If those three men hadn’t kept them, they wouldn't exist. It's really kind of a heroic story, it would be a great documentary. .” (5/09) Winsor McCay (1869-1934) Little Sammy Sneeze, 1905 (Sunday) Ink, crayon, wash on paper Collection of Ray Moniz The Comics Collectors
  • 5. Comic Artists Ernie Bushmiller Chester Gould Winsor McCay Milton Caniff Harold Grey Richard Outcault Al Capp Bill Griffith Gary Panter R. Crumb Milt Gross Alex Raymond Will Eisner George Herriman E.C. Segar Lyonel Feininger Bill Holman Joe Shuster H.C. Fisher Robert Kane Art Spiegelman Rube Goldberg Walt Kelly Cliff Sterrett Frank King Garry Trudeau Harvey Kurtzman & Wally Wood Stan Lee & Jack Kirby Painters & Sculptors Roger Brown Roy Lichtenstein Alexis Smith Ronnie Cutrone Jim Nutt Saul Steinberg Stuart Davis Claes Oldenburg Andy Warhol Oyvind Fahlstrom Suzan Pitt John Wesley John Fawcett Lee Quinones Karl Wirsum Vernon Fisher Mel Ramos Ray Yoshida Steve Gianakos Robert Rauschenberg Anonymous (2) Keith Haring Ad Reinhardt Jess David Salle Jasper Johns Kenny Scharf Richard Outcault. The Yellow Kid 1896 Art Spiegelman. Two-Fisted Painters, 1982 Plus additional works by Henry Chalfant, The Hairy Who & C. Comics Stuart Davis. Lucky Strike, 1924 Keith Haring. Untitled, 1981 Who was in the show.
  • 6. Gary Panter (b. 1950). Jimbo, 1981 Suzan Pitt (b. 1943). Untitled, 1983 (Sculpture) Jess (1923-2004). The Truth Shall be Thy Warrant, 1976 Ronnie Cutrone (b. 1948). The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance, 1982. John Carlin: “I hung the show myself, intuitively with no hierarchy, in a way meant to give the viewer an intellectually and emotionally moving experience.” (5/09) A wall of drawings by R. Crumb (b. 1943), Frank King (1883-1969), Cliff Sterrett (1883-1964) & Art Spiegelman (b. 1948). The small sculpture in the center is Untiltled, 1974 by Roger Brown (b. 1941). All exhibition photos courtesy of the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Exhibition photos
  • 7. George Herriman, Krazy Kat, June 11, 1936 Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997). Bugs Bunny, 1958. David Salle (b. 1952) Untitled. 1961. Jphn Carlin: “The thing that motivated me was this: here you are in the most media saturated culture in human history, and you have this form of expression, like comics, that's constantly on the verge of being literally inaccessible. Americans really don't preserve their own culture. It's a real tragedy, because we have this kind of fear of the things that we like. If we like it and it's popular, then it can't be significant.” (5/09) George Herriman, Krazy Kat, June 11, 1936 Winsor McCay (1869-1934) Little Sammy Sneeze, 1905 (Sunday) Anonymous (American Hopi Indian) Mickey Mouse doll. painted wood, c. 1950. Anonymous (Alaskan Eskimo) Olive Oyl doll. carved ivory. c. 1940. Exhibition photos
  • 8. Chester Gould (1900-1985), Dick Tracy, 1957 John Wesley,(b. 1928). Bumstead, in a Strait Jacket, 1975. These two graphics served as invitations to the opening reception and later dance party. The opening became a media event, covered by the New York Times, WABC TV, WNEW TV, the Village Voice, Newsweek, Art in America & others. There was also a week long animation festival. Opening & Events - July 18, 1983.
  • 9. “Cartoons and Comic Strips fall into the general category of folk art. They entertain and poke fun, tickle our funny bone, “Clearly, cartoon characters have transcended and satirize, but they do not concern themselves with their identity as mass-produced disposables, the broader formal or thematic dimensions of emerging as pictorial icons and psychological reality that are the symbols .“ basis of more serious forms of art.” -David Keeps, Heavy Metal, 11/83 -Theodore Wolff, Christian Science Monitor, 9/27/83 “What the Comic Art Show “The show is perhaps most successful in its attempt to reveals is a strong impulse make us see cartoons historically and critically in their to valorize the comics by hugely satisfying richness, to have us appreciate the treating them according to special kind of verbal/visual genius necessary to a methodology derived from create an enduring comic strip.“ mainstream art history.” -Roberta Smith, Village Voice, 8/23/83 -David Deitcher, Art in America, 2/84 “The Comic Art Show seemed to be trying to hard to prove that comics are art.” “What a delight! The cartoon become artoon.” -Jim Salicrup, quoted in Comics Journal 1/84 -Nicholas Moufarrege. FlashArt, 11/83 The critics have their say…
  • 10. Carlin: “One thing I was always proud to say, was at the time, and I haven’t checked this since, at the time it was the only profitable exhibition that the Whitney had ever done. It made a lot of money. Because I talked Keith Haring into doing the very first commercially available T-shirt that he ever did. He was afraid it was going to ruin his reputation. He was afraid no one would take him seriously...The T-shirts were probably only 10 bucks, but we might have sold, like, 10,000 T-shirts and 10,000 catalogs. Somebody uptown at the Whitney got the idea that this was a show that was so successful that they should've brought it uptown and re-presented it. And it got me into a lot of political mess, and basically, there were some powerful people that just didn't want to see that happen. Which I always thought was a shame. I think it's great that the Whitney did this, but I think it would've been more important, if they had really made it part of their uptown main museum exhibition schedule.” Catalog with 7 extensive essays printed by (5/09) Fantagraphics in black & white on inexpensive paper and sold for $2.95 (or $6.95 by mail). A Success ! … but wait…

Notas del editor

  1. Clearly, cartoon characters have transcended their identity as mass-produced disposables, emerging as pictorial icons and psychological symbols (David Keeps, Heavy Metal, 11/83) Cartoons and Comic Strips fall into the general category of folk art,. The entertain and poke fun, tickle our funny bone, and stirize, but they do not concern themselves with the broader formal or thematic dimensions of reality that are the basis of more serious forms of art. (Theodore Wolff, Christian Science Monitor, 9/27/83)