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)
- China safe – for the present 1902
- The headsman 1906
- Shy 1906
- The distracted hen 1900
- No rest for the wicked 1897
- The scarecrow of the Pacific 1907
- The crabbed millionaire’s puzzle 1901
- Letting his light shine 1900
- The power behind the scare-crow 1903
- Learning to walk 1906
- Here’s looking at you! 1902
- Labor’s idea of elevating itself 1902
- The independents fought nobly! 1894
- The vacant plate 1903
- Time! 1904
- Farewell performance by Robbin’ Hood and his merry men 1905
- Opening of the Democratic dime museum for 1900 1899
- A strenuous job on the Cuban ranch 1902
- Do it now 1907
- Farthest north 1907