DEMOREST - As a show featuring the art of caricaturist and animator Lenn Redman comes to a close, the Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art at Piedmont College will hold a reception from 5-7 p.m., Aug. 18, at the museum, with a talk by the artist’s son, Mark Redman of Oakwood.
Lenn Redman of Chicago was a prolific caricaturist and animator who was also a poet, author, teacher, and civil rights activist. The exhibit features a group of paintings that are among Redman’s last works and rarely seen in public. These paintings, which the artist called “articatures,” are depictions of famous artists such as Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso among others, created in the style of the subject.
The MSMA is located at 567 Georgia Street, Demorest. Museum hours are 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday through Saturday. For more information, contact director Daniel White at [email protected] or call 706-894-4201. The Redman exhibit is on display now through Aug. 18.
Born in Chicago in 1912, Lenn Redman studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the American Academy of Arts. From the 1930s until his death in 1987, he fascinated and entertained audiences around the U.S. with his unique and creative impressions. Also in the exhibit are cell drawings Redman did during the years he was lead animator at Hanna-Barbera, and two illustrations from his groundbreaking publication for children, “What Am I?” in the early 1970s.
