|
|
Joseph Farris has been a contract cartoonist with The New Yorker since 1971. He has done covers for The New Yorker, Barron's, Harvard Magazine, ABA Journal, Indiana Alumni, Industry Week and many others. For almost twenty years his cartoons were featured in Stern magazine in Germany. He has had two syndicated features, FARRISWHEEL for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate and PHIPPS for United Features Syndicate. He has published many books of his cartoons including Phobias and Therapies, A Cog in the Wheel, They're a Very Successful Family, and Money Inc. Farris has illustrated a number of books, among which are The Latin Riddle Book and Loose Leaf. His work has appeared in scores of cartoon collections including most of The New Yorker albums. He has had one-man shows of his cartoons and has participated in many group exhibitions. Joseph Farris's painting Cocktails won the Emily Award Competition. He had a one-man show at the Ward Eggleston Gallery on Madison Ave in New York City. The show received many favorable reviews. He recently completed a memoir, Elm Street, of his teen-age years growing up in Danbury, Connecticut. He had a successful one-man show at the Karpeles Museum in Newburgh, NY. which consisted of seventy-five cartoons from The New Yorker and over seventy of his paintings. In 2005, he was in the exhibition "Art and Artists: New Yorker Cartoons from the Melvin R. Seiden Collection" at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich CT. His cartoons and paintings are in many private collections such as President Jimmy Carter, Paul Newman, Colleen Dewhirst, William Safire, Paul Mellon and many others. A large selection of Farris's cartoons from The New Yorker are in the permanent collection of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City. In 2009, Joseph Farris was in a group show 'On the Money' Cartoons for The New Yorker at The Morgan Library & Museum. In 2009 he also had a large one-man show of his cartoons, paintings and sculpture at the "Center for New Media & the Arts". He also received the honor of having the gallery permanently named "The Joseph Farris Gallery". |