The Drawers - Alphonse van Woerkom Statement/Resume
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Exhibitions
1990 PS 122 New York, Portraits
1988 Dutch Painters at the Dutch Consulate, New York
1988 One Penn Plaza, New York, Genre Painting
1987 Sragow Gallery, New York
1985 Olympia and York, New York
Employment
January 1994 - present
Editorial Cartoons Newsday
September 1992 - December 1993
Political Cartoonist: "De Gelderlander", largest: Dutch regional daily,
circulation 200,000.
December 1992
Report From Ex-Yugoslavia. Sponsored by United Dutch Newspapers (Umbrella
organization covering Dutch language newspapers; 4 million readers.) Travel
from Croatia to Bosnia. Series of "War Art" drawings.
Summer 1992 - present
Staff Cartoonist for Northern Centinel, oldest newspaper in United States
(founded 1788). First Amendment newspaper. Artists and Opinions by
national and international personalities Politics, Science and Business.
1974-1978
Staff Cartoonist for NRC/Handelsblad, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Holland.
1975
Political drawings for London Times. Harold Evans, Editor.
1970-1972
Developed first use of political drawings cartoons for the new Op-Ed page of
the New York Times; Created the format for this page that is still in use
today.
Weekly drawings for Op-Ed page and Book Review section.
Harrison Salisbury/John Leonard, Editors
1970 Winner of the International Political Cartoon Award: Salon Du
Caricature Montreal, Canada.
Editorial Cartoonist for Toronto Star
Education
1959-67 Art Academies, Holland. Received Master of Fine Arts Degree.
Publications
Books
1973 Face to Face, published by Random House/Knopf.
Introduction by Harrison Salisbury.
1976 Common Life, published by Random House/Knopf.