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John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon
1870–1949
A Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, war correspondent, and author, he helped shape American newspaper art for decades. His work ranged from sharp editorial commentary to warmly observed scenes of Midwestern life.
3 Audiobooks
In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
by John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons
by John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon
Cartoons by McCutcheon A selection of one hundred drawings
by John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon
About the author
Born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in 1870, John Tinney McCutcheon studied at Purdue University before building a long newspaper career in Chicago. He worked for the Chicago Record and later the Chicago Tribune, where his cartoons made him one of the best-known American illustrators and editorial voices of his era.
McCutcheon was admired for his range. Alongside political cartoons, he created humorous and nostalgic drawings of rural Indiana life, and he also traveled widely as a war correspondent and artist. That mix of reporter, observer, and cartoonist gave his work both immediacy and personality.
He won the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for A Wise Economist Asks a Question and was often called the "Dean of American Cartoonists." By the time of his death in 1949, he had left behind a body of work that connected journalism, illustration, and American social history in a way few cartoonists have matched.