Campaigns & Cartoons: Role of Caricature in Political Persuasion, 1862-1912 December 17, 2009

This exhibit features more than 100 original sketches and published political cartoons from 1862 through 1912 from the collection of the Honorable Judge Julian L. Ridlen and Susanne S. Ridlen, Ph.D. The exhibit will present the evolution of the art form and the lives of popular artists who produced and popularized symbols such as Uncle Sam, Miss Columbia, the Democrats' donkey and the Republicans' elephant. The exhibit will treat such artists as Thomas Nast, Matthew Morgan, Joseph Keppler, and Bernard Gillam.