Pat Olliphant Exhibition · 19 May 2008
Stanford’s newly remodeled gallery space on Connecticut Ave., NW in Woodley Park. (Photo by Matt Wuerker)
Previous Image 1 of 5 Next Image
In the odd inky corner of the media landscape inhabited by us cartoonists, Pat Oliphant is Placido Domingo.
His is one of the boldest, most unmistakable and longest-lasting voices the dyspeptic art has ever seen. His political satire has cut a deep swath through a line of political figures going all the way back to LBJ, and he doesn’t show any signs of losing his edge.
Now he’s back in the nation’s capital with a wide-ranging show of his acerbic wit — “Leadership: Oliphant Cartoons and Sculpture From the Bush Years” — that just opened at the Stanford in WashingtonArt Gallery in D.C.’s Woodley Park neighborhood.
Click here to read more.
