Charles Addams Artwork To Be Featured In NY Museum Exhibit

Whether you live in the New York area, or will be in town to see the new Addams Family musical, you may want to drop by the Museum of the City of New York and check out the Charles Addams’s New York exhibit, which will be on display from March 4 to May 16.

Charles Addams’s New York is an exhibition of original artworks by the legendary New Yorkercartoonist that capture Addams’s quintessentially idiosyncratic and slyly subversive view of the city, depicting his signature macabre characters, twisted situations, and distorted reimaginings of the cityscape. The works in the exhibition include watercolors, preliminary pencil sketches, completed cartoons, and examples of published work from the cover of the New Yorker. The subjects are gleefully varied, ranging from charming to creepy; they include depictions of life on New York’s subways and buses, in offices, department stores, museums, parks, streets, and homes. A special section will look at the evolution of the creepy assemblage of characters who were dubbed “the Addams Family” as they developed as mainstays of Addams’s cartoons, moving through the streets of his New York and adding to the sense of mischief and deviancy that characterized the world as he saw it.  (from The Daily Cartoonist)

Addams’ work is the direct inspiration for the new Broadway musical, The Addams Family, which begins preview performances on March 8 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.  Click here for ticket information. 

For more information on the Museum of the City of New York, click here.