Sep
14
Historic Native American beadwork in American art gallery at Joslyn Art Museum. Plains beadwork work side-by-side with Mary Cassatt and Childe Hassam paintings in the American gallery. It borrows a phrase that Steadman saved repeating to exhibition coordinator Andrea Harris in the course of the planning of the show, but fittingly alludes to the sheer scope of works on view as a lot as the artist’s restlessness. It’s the uncommon cartoonist, after all, who can mine the medium’s riches, whereas Picture of Arts including to—and transforming—it. Steadman’s earliest works, for publications including Punch and Private Eye, had been provocative cartoons…