to the audience who could only appreciate the circus from the bleachers. In 1982, the Smithsonian Institution commissioned Cober to create a mural in celebration of George Washington's 250th birthday. Among his many other notable journalistic assignments were his coverage of the shuttle liftoffs from Cape Canaveral for NASA, the 1980 presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter for TIME, and in 1987 Cober traveled on the press plane to cover Pope John Paul's visit to the United States for Rolling Stone. His fascination with mental as well as physical decay and a compassion for social issues formed the foundation of his artistic themes throughout his career. Cober's aim as a visual journalist (which is what he called himself) was to effect change by graphically exposing what he determined as critically important to interpret at the time. Museum exhibitions In 1992, the Georgia Museum of Art displayed Cober's work in an exhibition titled Alan E. Cober: suite Georgia. The exhibition title refers to prints Cober completed during 1991 as the Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair at the University Of Georgia. The exhibition included etchings made of such folk artists as Howard Finster, R.A. Miller, Reverend John D. Ruth as well as Georgia tourist attractions such as the statue of Br'er Rabbit in downtown Eatonton, Georgia. In 1992, the Katonah Museum of Art would display a thirty-year retrospective of Cober's visual reportage of news, culture and the environment. The exhibition would travel to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and then to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama. The exhibition was curated by Steven Heller Four years after his death, an exhibition of his work, titled Alan E. Cober: A Retrospective Afterlife, was organized by the Ringling School of Art and appeared at the University at Buffalo in 2002. The exhibit included over 100 drawings and was on display from February 15 through May 18 of 2002. Bibliography Cober would illustrate 25 books, two of which made The New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Books: Winter's Eve (1969) and Mr. Corbett's Ghost (1968). Below is a partial list. Eastward to India: Vasco Da Gama's Voyage, by George Sanderlin, HarperCollins Publishers, 1965 Nothingatall, Nothingatall, Nothingatall by Robert Paul Smith, Harper & Row, 1965 Tale of a Black Cat, by Carl A. Withers, Henry Holt & Company, 1966 The Gumdrop Necklace, by, Phyllis La Farge, Knopf, 1967 Viollet, by Julia Cunningham, Pantheon Books, 1966 Mister