The Center for Cartoon Studies and the Museum of the City of New York present
Denys Wortman Rediscovered:
Drawings for the World-Telegram and Sun, 1930-1953
through March 20, 2011
Denys Wortman Rediscovered: Drawings for the World-Telegram and Sun, 1930-1953 is an exhibition of original cartoon drawings made for the World-Telegram and Sun illustrating episodes of everyday life in New York City.Formally trained in art at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art under the tutelage of Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, Wortman was among a new generation of social realists who believed in the artistic possibilities of modern urban life as a creative subject. The benches at Union Square, the tenement rooftops on the Lower East Side, and the stifling garment industry sweatshops provided the backdrops for his drawings that, in combination with Wortman’s colorful characters, instill a sense of place that was distinctly “New York.”
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Tags: CAA, Cartoon Studies, College Art Association, Denys Wortman, mcny, New York
