John Samuel Pughe
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
- Let the gold dust twins do your work 1905
- Greedy Johnnie 1896
- Our British watch-dog 1901
- I wonder if it’s loaded! 1903
- A result of the system 1895
- The sands of time 1904
- The municipal big stick 1905
- A critical situation 1895
- Bad for business 1896
- Seeing things at night 1905
- Ready for business 1899
- Satisfying their curiosity 1898
- The independents fought nobly! 1894
- Liberty 1903
- Too much for him! 1900
- His neighborly suggestion 1903
- A prospect of over-education 1902
- Farthest north 1907
- He’d better cut behind 1898
- Not yet, and probably not soon 1908