Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing…

We are excited to return to the USA with a new Ralph Steadman exhibition. The last show, Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective, had to go back to the UK early because of COVID. Thanks to support from United Therapeutics, our new exhibition, Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing, is now touring the country. We started at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC, from September 7th through December 8, 2024. The exhibition then traveled to the OSU Art Museum in Stillwater, Oklahoma, from January 21 to May 10, 2025, and the Bates Art Museum in Lewiston, Maine, from June 6 to October 11, 2025. Next, we visited the Torrance Art Museum in California from March 28 to May 9, 2026. Our final stop is The Gregory Allicar Museum of Art at Colorado State in Fort Collins.

The exhibition explores the dynamic between real events and fiction and how, so frequently in Steadman’s work, one influences the other. The viewer will witness his early observations and sketches as a student at the East Ham Technical College, and how they informed his first cartoons and submissions to publications like Punch and Private Eye. In his illustrations for Alice in Wonderland, he created a modern classic, transferring characters that he witnessed in 1960’s London to Lewis Carroll’s bizarre, upside-down world. World events and artistic influences creep into his depictions of characters in his children’s books and his illustrations for Animal Farm.

The exhibition features works that show Steadman’s deep interest in literature and politics, as well as his dedication to every subject he explores. For almost 70 years, he has called his art ‘filthy scribbling’ and has worked with many people, including Hunter S. Thompson, Will Self, and Ceri Levy. Each partnership brought out something different in his art. His work with Hunter S. Thompson, like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and his Watergate trial drawings for Rolling Stone Magazine, is bold and intense. His illustrations for Will Self’s travel column, Psychogeography, are creative and lively. In the Gonzovation Trilogy with Ceri Levy, his drawings of endangered animals show both care and sadness for their loss and the dangers they face.

Ralph Steadman is a true polymath much like his hero, Leonardo da Vinci, and has worked in multiple disciplines, creating set designs, film posters, sculptures, writing and performing his own songs, an eco opera, and writing and illustrating his own books. He is one of a kind. Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing... showcases his amazing talent and imagination.

We could not share this new exhibition with you without the support of our sponsors, United Therapeutics. We are very grateful for your continued support.

Katzen Art Center

OSU Museum of Art

Bates Museum of Art

Torrance Art Museum

Gregory Allicar Museum of Art

For Anna Steadman - 21st March 1944 - 2nd February 2022

We are proud to dedicate Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing… to Ralph’s beloved wife, Anna. She always supported him in all of his artistic endeavours, and said that early on in their relationship she realised that there were three people in their marriage, herself, Ralph and his art. As soon as she accepted that she could always be there, in the background, making a home for him and their daughter Sadie, as well as being a loving Stepmother to his older children, Suzannah, Theo, Genevieve and Henry.

Anna was a creative force herself, creating expansive embroideries of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, painting scenes from their garden in Kent in media including watercolors, acrylic, pastels, oil pastels and collage, and building fanciful paper maché models and sculptures.

She was a dedicated diarist on all of their trips whether for pleasure or on worldwide trips for Obbbins exploring the wineries of the world and always surrounded by a plethora of close friends whom she adored to ‘hang’ with.

We are pleased that she made the trips out to New York, Washington DC and San Francisco for the exhibition Ralph Steadman: a Retrospective. She took great delight in seeing Ralph’s work enjoyed by such broad and varied audiences and we know that she would have blessed this incarnation with all her heart.