John Samuel Pughe
Artworks: 273
Puck magazine political cartoonist
John Samuel Pughe, was a Welsh-born American political cartoonist, best known for his illustrations for Puck magazine. John Samuel Pughe was born in Dolgelley, Merionethshire, Wales, and brought to America by his parents when he was two years old. He studied art at Cooper Union. J. S. Pughe illustrated news stories for the New York Recorder, Brooklyn Life, and the Brooklyn edition of the World as a young man. He began working at Puck magazine in 1894. He was a regular contributor there until his last cartoon for them, in December 1908. Pughe died in 1909, age 38, at Lakehurst, New Jersey, where he had been spending several months to improve his health.
Artworks by this artist (273 total)
- Reed’s rope 1898
- The old and the new 1901
- In the happy hunting grounds 1902
- The ‘ki-yis’ can’t rattle him 1895
- The distracted hen 1900
- The open door 1899
- The scarecrow of the Pacific 1907
- A Kansas David in the field 1905
- A tidy job; but– 1903
- They expect the impossible 1897
- By the grace of ‘Justice’ 1903
- The new girl 1897
- Waiting for the balloon ascension 1902
- A little suggestion 1897
- Father Knickerbocker’s fight for a sensible Sunday law 1901
- A harmless tour 1903
- Killed in committee 1906
- This cat escapes the Senate with a few of its nine lives left; – will it lose them in the House 1902
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- ‘Blowing’ himself around the country 1896