To Stir, Inform, and Inflame: The Art of Tony Auth

Chappaqua Library Presents

Tony Auth’s cartoons, seemingly simple and always direct, influenced public opinion and politicians for more than forty years. “Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them.” Auth, a Pulitzer Prize winner, documents the changing political and cultural landscape of our time. From LBJ to Obama, from the energy crisis to the financial crisis, this talk will show more than 100 cartoons that touched the lives of countless newspaper readers all over America.

Lecturer David Leopold is an author and curator who has organized exhibitions for the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and others and organized the archives of Al Hirschfeld’s work at Lincoln Center.