The intoxicating nature of tobacco was frequently called upon in the depiction of smokers, encouraging images of intellectual dullness, licentiousness, and laconic stupor. Prints of intoxicated peasants, indoors and out, by such masters of the genre as Adriaen van Ostade and David Teniers attest to this. Dry Drunk concludes with a group of allegorical musings on the nature of life and art. The curator of Dry Drunk is Elizabeth Wyckoff, Print Specialist. The New York Public Library Center for the Humanities, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, is open Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 10 a.m.
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