Dear List-Friends:
 
For your consideration, a traveling exhibition is available for the summer and/or fall of 2009 that's a crowd-pleaser, a media-getter, and a family-grabber - and a particularly attractive show in hard economic times. 
 
Good for art museums, children's museums, history museums, technology museums and more.  Because of the late date, price is negotiable. Thanks!


                     "THE ART OF WARNER BROS. CARTOONS”


The most popular cartoon characters in the United States -- and the recipients of a major four-month tribute at New York's Museum of Modern Art -- are the subject of an educational art exhibition now available.

"The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons" is a comprehensive overview of a legendary Hollywood animation studio, the rambunctious birthplace of characters who have become part of American folklore.

As The New York Times noted in its review of the exhibition's catalogue: "Life in these United States would be inconceivable without the shared referent of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner, The Tasmanian Devil, Tweety, Sylvester, Pepe Le Pew and Yosemite Sam."

Since 1930, the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" of Warner Bros. have delighted audiences young and old with their wit and surprising sophistication. Such Warner phrases as "What's up, Doc?," “That’s All Folks!,” "I Taut I Taw a Putty-Tat," "Sufferin' Succotash!," and "Acme" have become part of the national vocabulary.

Indeed, the pre-eminence of the Warner studio was certified by a People Magazine poll, which named Bugs Bunny as "Best puppet or cartoon character." Just two Warner characters -- Bugs and the Road Runner -- captured 24% of the vote.

And this was repeated in a recent TV Guide survey, which named Bugs “Greatest Cartoon Character of All Time.”

Further, in recent years the seven-minute cartoons have earned both critical and popular acclaim as America's finest, funniest and most inventive animated shorts. Evidence of this came when Warner Bros. became the first cartoon-makers of any kind to be given a full-scale retrospective by New York's Museum of Modern Art.

The four-month exhibition proved extremely popular, generating more press response for MoMA's film department than any other show it has undertaken.

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Originally shown in theaters, the Warner shorts developed new audiences with the rise of television in the 1950's. Many people under the age of 45 have seen these cartoons literally hundreds of times as they were growing up. Yet most of these viewers are unfamiliar with the actual artwork from which these films were created.

The educational exhibition "The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons" is a greatly expanded version of the Museum of Modern Art show, and consists of over 160 drawings, paintings, "cels" and related art objects used in the making of Warner's classic cartoons, from the 1930's through 1960.

Works by all of the studio's directors -- including Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng and Bob Clampett, now considered the giants of American animated filmmakers -- are richly represented.

Vivacious, colorful and highly enjoyable, the exhibition traces the development of all of Warner's cartoon stars. It also gives a step-by-step breakdown of how classic “cel” animation was produced.

Videos of the finished cartoons make the exhibition vastly lively and fun.

The show’s size is flexible, requiring from 2,000 to 4,000 square feet.

For more information, please call (212) 353-6042, or angle an e-mail to Steve at [log in to unmask]

That’s All, Folks!


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