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Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

June 6 – October 11, 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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This extensive traveling exhibition spans over 60 years of Ralph Steadman\u2019s influential and lauded career, and features more than 140 original artworks and ephemera, including sketchbooks, handwritten notes, and personal photographs. Visitors to the exhibition will encounter familiar favorites, like the artist\u2019s illustrations for literary classics such as Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alice in Wonderland <\/em>and Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s Treasure Island, <\/em>as well as works for activist causes, branding iconography, and even a life-sized bronze sculpture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ralph Steadman was born in Wallasey, England in 1936 and is one of his generation\u2019s most prolific and provocative artists. He is best known for his long collaboration with Hunter S. Thompson, notably illustrating 1971\u2019s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.<\/em> Their partnership helped define Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting that blends personal experience with political commentary. He is an active artist today and continues to influence artists from around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because Steadman\u2019s works have so often been utilized in mass media like publishing, they have reached admirers with an appeal that crosses socio-economic demographics and national boundaries.Steadman\u2019s work\u2013with its mix of controlled and precise lines, anatomical and mechanical collage pieces, and bold and frenzied free-drawing and blots\u2013is instantly recognizable to an extraordinary range of people. \u201cRalph Steadman enjoys an enthusiastic fan base,\u201d says education curator Anthony Shostak. \u201c<\/strong>We expect visitors from all across New England and beyond to flock to Bates to take advantage of the opportunity to see original works instead of reproductions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition fills the museum\u2019s upper and lower galleries, offering a thorough exploration of Ralph Steadman\u2019s remarkable career and diverse subject matter. Interactive resources in the exhibition will encourage visitors to look deeply and make connections between works. Accompanying the exhibition is a full-color, 207-page publication of the same name, available for purchase, as well as unique merchandise specifically for Bates College. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The realization of a Steadman exhibition at Bates marks almost a decade of planning between Bates\u2019s former director Dan Mills, Ralph Steadman, and his team; another of Steadman\u2019s exhibitions was set to arrive at the museum during the 2020 COVID Pandemic. Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing<\/em> is organized by the Ralph Steadman Art Collection, and curated by Sadie Williams and Andrea Lee Harris. This exhibition has previously toured at American University in Washington DC and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Following the presentation at the Bates College Museum of Art, the exhibition will open at Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and then tour in the West Coast through the fall of 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing<\/em> is organized by the Ralph Steadman Art Collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All photographs are courtesy of the Ralph Steadman Collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ralph Steadman, Self Portrait<\/em>, 2006, Ink, collage on paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ralph Steadman, Fear and Loathing in Elko<\/em> for Rolling Stone Magazine<\/em>, 1991, ink on paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ralph Steadman, The Workhouse, ca. 1965, pen, ink and whiteout on paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Portrait of Ralph Steadman, 2019. Photo by Dan Mills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ralph Steadman, Leonardo the Cape Vulture<\/em>, 1983, pen and ink on paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ralph Steadman at home, October 2023. Photo by Rikard \u00d6sterlund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ralph Steadman, Soldiers in Stripes <\/em>from Alice Through the Looking Glass<\/em>, 1971, ink on paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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