Ronald Searle (1920-2011), Molesworth, 1999 © The Estate of Ronald Searle

Ronald Searle: Obsessed with drawing

Tue 13 October 2015 - Sun 31 January 2016

Fitzwilliam Museum

Ronald Searle (1920-2011) is among Britain’s most popular
and celebrated graphic satirists.

Born in Cambridge, Searle is best known as the inventor
of the fictional girls’ school St. Trinian’s (1948) and for his
collaborations on Geoffrey Willans’ Molesworth series (1953-
58). However, as this exhibition shows, he had a long and
productive career across a range of different genres. Searle
worked as a war artist, but also made drawings for book and
magazine illustration, travel reportage, theatre, film, medals
and political caricature. Fuelled by visits to the Fitzwilliam
Museum during his formative years, he had a keen sense of his
own place in the history of caricature - a selection of work
by the caricaturists he most admired will be on display in a
complementary exhibition in the Charrington Print Room.

This exhibition is drawn from a recent gift of the artist’s work,
generously presented to the Museum by his children in 2014.

An associated exhibition 'Coming Home: Ronald Searle
and Cambridge School of Art', curated by Professor Martin
Salisbury, will run concurrently at Anglia Ruskin University's
Ruskin Gallery from 13 October - 19 November
www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskingallery.

Cost: Free