Anthony Euwer

Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Anthony Euwer was an American poet, painter, and illustrator. Reliable sources describe him as having studied at Princeton University and at the Art Students League in New York before building a career that blended writing and visual art.

He became closely associated with Oregon, living in Portland in the 1910s and 1920s and contributing illustrations and literary work to publications including the Spectator and the Oregon Journal. The Poetry Foundation notes that he was especially known for the dry humor of his limericks, while art references also remember him as a painter and illustrator.

Euwer published books such as Christopher Cricket on Cats, The Limeratomy, and By Scarlet Torch and Blade. He is often remembered for a famously witty limerick that was admired and repeated by Woodrow Wilson, a small sign of how widely his comic verse traveled in his lifetime.