Otho Cushing

Otho Cushing
Cushing in 1911
Born Otho Williams McD. Cushing
(1870-10-22)October 22, 1870
Baltimore, Maryland
Died October 13, 1942(1942-10-13) (aged 71)
New Rochelle, New York
Nationality American
Education Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Académie Julian
Known for Illustration, painting

Otho Williams McD. Cushing[1] (October 22, 1870 or 1871 – October 13, 1942)[1] was an American artist, known primarily for his early 20th century illustration and cartoons, for magazines and posters.[2] His sometimes-homoerotic style, often featuring classical figures, was influenced by Frederic Leighton, J. C. Leyendecker, and Aubrey Beardsley.[3][4]

Biography

Otho Cushing was born in Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland to Harry Cooke Cushing and Martha Wetherill Budd Cushing.[5] The son of an Army officer, he spent his youth in different cities where his father was stationed; in 1880 the family lived in Providence, Rhode Island.[1] In 1887, he finished his secondary education at the Bulkeley School in New London, Connecticut. He studied art at Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and in 1891 at the Académie Julian in Paris, where his teachers included Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens.

He returned to Boston in September 1893 and became drawing instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published drawings in Life magazine.[6] Around 1900, he returned to Paris, where he became artistic director of the New York Herald European edition.[1] When he returned to the United States, he lived in New York and was friends with Charles Allan Gilbert.[3] In 1907, Life published a series of his cartoons about President Theodore Roosevelt entitled The Teddyssey (a parody of The Odyssey).[7][8]

In 1917, he left Life and joined the Army Air Service, serving as a captain in charge of "supervising the camouflaging of American airfields on the Western Front".[9][10] Several of his posters and drawings deal with the American involvement in World War 1. After the war, he retired to New Rochelle with his younger brother, architect Nicholas Cooke Cushing, and embraced a career as watercolorist.[5]

Collections

Bibliography

Horn, Maurice, ed. The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons. 2d ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Stripper's Guide: Ink-Slinger Profiles by Alex Jay: Otho Cushing". strippersguide.blogspot.fr. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  2. ↑ "Otho Cushing Caricature Biography". www.sil.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  3. 1 2 Harrity, Christopher (12 April 2014). "Artist Spotlight: Otho Cushing". Advocate.
  4. ↑ Gallatin, A. E. (1903). "A Note on Otho Cushing's Drawings". Brush and Pencil. 11 (5): 351–355. doi:10.2307/25505856. JSTOR 25505856.
  5. 1 2 "OTHO Otho Cushing, 71; New. Rochelle Illustrator Was Known for Line Drawings in Old Life Magazine, Air Captain in Last War Series on Theodore Roosevelt, 'The Teddyssey,' Parodied Adventures of Ulysses". The New York Times. 1942-10-15. p. 23. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  6. ↑ Close, John Weir (2013-10-15). A Giant Cow-Tipping by Savages: The Boom, Bust, and Boom Culture of M&A. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781137397751.
  7. ↑ Cushing, Otho (1907). The Teddyssey. Life publishing Company.
  8. ↑ "Drawing From Life". www.sil.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  9. ↑ "49. Untitled, 1918/19 | Edward Steichen's World War I Years". 2017-03-19. Archived from the original on 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  10. ↑ "For action enlist in the Air Service / Otho Cushing, Capt. A.S.U.S.A." The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  11. ↑ "Collection". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  12. ↑ "Musée d'Orsay: Notice d'Artiste". www.musee-orsay.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-21.
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