Otho Cushing

Haec olim meminisse juvabit (Virgile Aeneid). University of Virginia Yearbook (1899)

Otho Cushing (October 22, 1871 - October 13, 1942) born in Fort McHenry, Maryland was an American illustrator , cartoonist and poster designer.[1]

Biography

The son of an officier, he spent his youth in different cities where his father was sent. He finished his secondary education at the Bulkeley School in New London. He studied art at Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and in 1891 at the Académie Julian in Paris, where his teachers were Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. He returned to Boston in September 1893 and became drawing instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published drawings in Life (magazine).[2] Around 1900, he returned to Paris where he became artistic director of the International Herald Tribune European edition. When He returned to the United States, he lived in New York and was friend with Charles Allan Gilbert.[3] He published a series of cartoons on President Theodore Roosevelt entitled The Teddyssey , (parodied adventures of Ulysses).[4][5]

His style is influenced by J. C. Leyendecker , Aubrey Beardsley and Frederic Leighton.[6] In 1917, he joined the Army Air Corps, as captain, in charge of camoufage[7][8] and left Life. Several posters and drawings deal with the American involvement in the war. After the war, he retired to New Rochelle with his younger brother, an architect and embraced a career as watercolorist.[9][10]

Collections

Bibliography

Horn, Maurice, ed. The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons. 2d ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999.

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