John Samuel Pughe

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Portrait of John Samuel Pughe (Grant Wright, 1904).

John Samuel Pughe (born June 3, 1870 in Dolgellau , Merionethshire , † April 19, 1909 in Lakehurst , New Jersey ) was an American cartoonist . He became famous for his anthropomorphized chromolithographs in the American satirical magazine Puck , for which he worked from 1894 until his death.

life and work

The cartoon Go on! You ask 'em! They can't do more than refuse . on the front page of Puck, denouncing party funding by Wall Street firms (1908).

Pughe was of Welsh descent, his parents emigrated to the USA in 1892. He first attended a public school in New York and studied art at the School of Arts of the Cooper Union until 1891 . Pughe then worked for a short time as an office clerk before he was hired as a cartoonist for New York Recorder , Brooklyn Life and finally New York World . After his works had attracted some attention there, he was hired as a cartoonist in 1894 by the then extremely popular satirical magazine Puck, which was also based in New York. Pughe published his last cartoons in December 1908, before he retired from his home in Waterville to Lakehurst, where he died in April 1909.

In his works Pughe dealt with various topics of current politics and denounced corruption in particular. Like the other Puck illustrators, he also made chromolithographs. Even after his death, his works received some attention and were used and analyzed many times. His handling of ethnic stereotypes and his use of anthromorphized animals were particularly emphasized .

Web links

Commons : John Samuel Pughe  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Week by Week . In: The Weekly Mail . Cardiff May 22, 1909 ( library.wales [accessed May 31, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Michael Alexander Kahn, Richard Samuel West: What Fools These Mortals Be! The Story of Puck . 1st edition. IDW Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-63140-046-9 , pp. 323 .
  3. ^ JS Pughe as new cartoonist for Puck (1894). In: Brooklyn Life . Brooklyn, New York August 18, 1894, p. 6 ( newspapers.com [accessed May 31, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Kahn, West: What Fools These Mortals Be! The Story of Puck . S. 305 .
  5. ^ Obituary Notes . In: The New York Times . April 20, 1909 ( nytimes.com [PDF; 49 kB ; accessed on May 31, 2020]).
  6. ↑ What Fools These Mortals Be! The Story of Puck. In: Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. April 22, 2015, accessed May 31, 2020 .
  7. ^ Art Wood: Great Cartoonists and Their Art . Arcadia Publishing, 2000, ISBN 978-1-56554-796-4 , pp. 33 .
  8. ^ Government Printing Office (Ed.): United States Senate Catalog of Graphic Art . 2006, p. 437, 452, 454, 461 .
  9. ^ Sara Duke: Biographical Sketches of Cartoonists & Illustrators in the Swann Collection of the Library of Congress . 2017, ISBN 978-1-304-85888-7 , pp. 252 .
personal data
SURNAME Pughe, John Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pughe, JS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Dolgellau
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1909
Place of death Lakehurst