Jim Morin

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Jim Morin
Born (1953-01-30) January 30, 1953 (age 71)
Washington, D.C.
NationalityAmerican
Known forVisual arts, painting
SpouseDanielle Morin [1]
Awards Overseas Press Club Awards, 1979 & 1990
Pulitzer Prize, Miami Herald Editorial Board, 1983
National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award, 1992
Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, 1996 & 2017
Berryman Award, 1996
John Fischetti Award, 2000
Thomas Nast Prize, 2002
Herblock Prize, 2007
Website www.jimmorin.com

Jim Morin (born January 30, 1953, in Washington, D.C. [2] ) is the internationally syndicated editorial cartoonist at the Miami Herald since 1978 and a painter, usually working in the medium of oil, of more than 40 years. His cartoons have included extensive commentary on eight U.S. presidents: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

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Morin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1996 and again in 2017. As the editorial cartooning Pulitzer category no longer exists, Morin is the last editorial cartoonist to have received the award. Morin is syndicated nationally and internationally by his own Morintoons Syndicate. [3] He was previously syndicated by CWS/The New York Times Syndicate and by King Features Syndicate. His cartoons and caricatures run in newspapers in states including New York, Alaska, Colorado, Ohio, Oregon, California, Michigan, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Texas, as well as in Canada and countries in Europe and Southwest Asia. His work has appeared in national magazines, various books and on Internet sites and magazines. Morin has been interviewed on CNN, WFOR, NPR, Sky News (the 24-hour European television news station), Comcast Newsmakers and several other television programs.

Biography

Morin was raised in the Massachusetts suburb of Wayland.[ citation needed ] He began drawing at age seven.

He attended the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts and Suffield Academy in Connecticut, and studied painting and drawing at Syracuse University under Jerome Witkin. "He was the only teacher I had who saw cartoons as paintings, as art," Morin says. "Painting has made me more conscious.. . . My paintings affect my drawings and vice versa." [4] The Watergate scandal inspired Morin to explore the art of caricature. During his senior year at Syracuse, he was the editorial cartoonist for their daily student newspaper, The Daily Orange . [1] [5] He graduated from Syracuse in 1975 with a degree in illustration and a minor in painting. [6] [7]

Following college, Morin served a brief stint as the editorial cartoonist at The Beaumont Enterprise before moving on to Richmond, Virginia, where he spent one year as the editorial cartoonist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch . [1] During his time in Richmond, Morin became a professional acquaintance of Jeff MacNelly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at the Richmond News Leader . In December, 1978, Morin moved to The Miami Herald where he worked until his retirement in 2019. Throughout his editorial cartooning career, he also worked evenings on his oil paintings and his work was shown at many galleries and museum shows throughout Florida.

Books

Morin is the author of several books: Line of Fire: Political Cartoons by Jim Morin,Bushed, and Ambushed. (The latter two cartoon collections contained words by Walter C. Clements.) [8]

Morin's work has also been shown in compendiums of political cartoons and on the PBS documentary, The American Presidents. [9]

Morin's watercolor work is evident in his book, Jim Morin's Field Guide to Birds. [10]

Exhibitions

His cartoons have been exhibited worldwide, most recently at The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, where in 2022, a selection of his cartoons focused on issues of the environment were showcased alongside a selection of his landscape paintings. [11] His cartoons were also featured in an exhibition at the University of Miami's Lowe Art Museum, where he also spoke to a packed and standing audience. His retrospective exhibition of cartoons at the International Museum of Cartoon Art hung for nine months due to popular demand.

The Coral Springs Museum of Art exhibited a large body of his work in its two-month show, Jim Morin: Art of Politics Drawings & Paintings in 2008. His canvasses have been exhibited in Miami group shows at the Museum of Science, the Art Collector's Gallery, the Don Webb Gallery, the Virginia Miller Gallery and Patou Fine Art. He had a one-man show at the Futernick Gallery in Miami in 2006. On the web, his paintings can be viewed on his website and at that of Absolute Arts.[ citation needed ]

Awards

Morin won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1996 and in 2017. He shared the Pulitzer with the Miami Herald Editorial Board in 1983 and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1977 and 1990. In 2007, he won the prestigious Herblock Prize. Upon awarding the Herblock Prize to Morin, Harry Katz, the Herb Block Foundation curator, praised Morin for his "impressive, unrelenting barrage of cartoons and caricatures displaying artistry, courage and conviction." [12]

Internationally he has won the Thomas Nast Prize, [13] given every three years. Nationally, he has also been awarded the 2000 John Fischetti Award, the 1996 National Press Foundation Berryman Award, the 1992 National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award, and the Overseas Press Club Awards in 1990 and 1979.

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  1. 1 2 3 "National Newspaper week 1991: Jim Morin". The Miami Herald . 10 October 1991. p. 119. Retrieved 16 January 2021– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  2. ↑ "The Pulitzer Prizes Jim Morin Biography". The Pulitzer Prizes . Retrieved August 2, 2013.
  3. ↑ "JimMorin.com". www.jimmorin.com. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  4. ↑ Bramson, Dara. "Crossover Cartoonist." Miami Monthly, February, 2007.
  5. ↑ "National Newspaper week 1989: Jim Morin". The Miami Herald. Miami, Florida. 11 October 1989. p. 84. Retrieved 2 January 2021– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  6. ↑ Gadoua, Renée K. (December 14, 2017). "Editorial Cartoonist Jim Morin's Second Pulitzer". Syracuse University . Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  7. ↑ Charboneau, Jeffrey (1995). "Just for laughs". Syracuse University Magazine . Vol. 12, no. 2. pp. 30–31. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  8. ↑ Jim., Morin (1991). Line of fire : political cartoons. Florida International University Press. ISBN   9780813011011. OCLC   23286334.
  9. ↑ Jim., Morin (2017-02-08). Jim Morin's world : 40 years of social commentary from a Pulitzer Prize winner cartoonist. ISBN   9781633535077. OCLC   974039733.
  10. ↑ Jim., Morin (1985). Jim Morin's Field guide to birds. Quill. ISBN   9780688042004. OCLC   12664514.
  11. ↑ "Exhibition: Jim Morin: Drawing and Painting". February 16, 2022.
  12. ↑ "JIM MORIN RECEIVES 2007 HERBLOCK PRIZE," Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine The Herb Block Foundation press release (February 19, 2007).
  13. ↑ "The 2002 Thomas Nast Prize for editorial cartooning," Archived 2013-01-22 at archive.today The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists press release (February 18, 2002): "The Nast Prize was first awarded to Jeff MacNelly in 1978 and subsequently to Jim Borgman, Paul Szep, Draper Hill, Pat Oliphant, David Levine, and Jim Morin."
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