The Waldemar A. Schmidt Art Gallery is featuring a self-taught caricaturist’s drawings.

“The Lost Drawings of George Wachsteter” will be on display until April 12. The gallery is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

Wachsteter was a well-known illustrator and caricaturist for 30 years from 1937 to1967 in New York. He was one of the most ex­traordinary and visible theatrical caricaturists working during the 40s and 50s after Al Hirschfeld.

Matthew Wilson, professor of art, archived Wachsteter’s draw­ings, which were discovered following

Wachsteter’s death in the late 1960s. Wilson selected a few of his drawings and brought them to Wartburg.

However, a gradual loss of his vision ended his drawing career in the 1970s.

Hundreds of his ink drawings, sketches and paintings had been in boxes for decades until they were discovered after his death in 2004.