John T. McCutcheon
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John Tinney McCutcheon (May 6, 1870 – June 10, 1949) was an American newspaper political cartoonist who was known as the "Dean of American Cartoonists".
McCutcheon was born near South Raub, Tippecanoe County, Indiana to Captain John Barr McCutcheon and Clara Glick McCutcheon. He was the younger brother of novelist George Barr McCutcheon, writer of the Graustark books.
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[edit] Education
He attended Purdue University, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, in graduated in 1889 with a Bachelor of Science degree. At Purdue, he worked with typographer Bruce Rogers on the student newspaper and yearbook. On the Purdue campus, McCutcheon is memorialized in a coeducational dormitory, John T. McCutcheon Hall. The lobby displays an original of one of his drawings, a nearly life-size drawing of a young man.
He moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he worked at the Chicago Morning News (later named the Chicago Record) and then at the Chicago Tribune from 1903 until his retirement in 1946.
[edit] Awards
He received the Pulitzer Prize for Cartoons in 1932. McCutcheon High School in his home county Tippecanoe is named in his honor.
McCutcheon died in Lake Forest, Illinois.
[edit] Works
- Cartoons: A Selection of One Hundred Drawings (1903); with introduction by George Ade
- Bird Center Cartoons; A Chronicle of Social Happenings at Bird Center Illinois, 1904.
- The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons, 1905.
- Injun Summer, 1907.
- T.R. in Cartoons, 1910.
- Drawn from Memory: The Autobiography of John T. McCutcheon, Bobbs-Merrill, 1950.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: John T. McCutcheon |
- 1908 profile with cartoon samples
- McCutcheon Digital Exhibit at Purdue University Libraries Archives and Special Collections
- John T. McCutcheon Papers at Syracuse University
- McCutcheon High School
| Preceded by Edmund Duffy |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning 1932 |
Succeeded by H. M. Talburt |
