"Don't pay any attention to him. He's 90% water.":
The Cartooning Career of Boris Drucker
A retrospective exhibition presented by the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library

Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery
Syracuse University Lubin House
March 19 - June 2, 2005

For more than a half century, Boris Drucker has earned a livelihood-and a national reputation-as a cartoonist working in variety of media. His drawing style and humor are familiar to generations or readers of such diverse magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Playboy, Family Circle, and the New Yorker. Throughout his career, Drucker has also worked as a commercial artist for corporate clients in advertising and industry, winning awards for his contributions to Bell Telephone's "call by number" advertisements in the 1950s and other campaigns. Drawing on the extensive archives he has donated to the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library, this retrospective exhibition documents the full span of Drucker's career as a graphic artist, including art school drawings, World War II sketchbooks from India, early advertising assignments, and many published and unpublished cartoons. All are filled with Drucker's characteristically sympathetic humor, which is rooted in our shared human condition.

The exhibition is complemented by an illustrated catalog, featuring a biographical essay by Johanna Drucker, the artist's daughter, a noted book artist, scholar, and critic. Items featured in the exhibition are drawn from the Boris Drucker Papers housed in the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library, with additional material on loan from Mr. Drucker.