biography of John Tinney MCCUTCHEON (1870-1949)

Birth place: South Raub, IN

Addresses: Chicago, IL

Profession: Cartoonist, writer

Studied: Purdue Univ., with Ernest Knaufft, grad. 1889.

Exhibited: AIC, 1928; Awards: Pulitzer prize for cartoon, 1931 ("A Wise Economist Asks a Question").

Member: SI,1911; AIC.

Comments: Position: staff, Chicago News, and Chicago Record-Herald, 14 years; staff, Chicago Tribune, 1903-c.1943, and correspondent, during Spanish War, Boer War, and WWI. Was in in Philippines in 1901, Japan in 1904, Central Asia in 1906 and in Africa in 1909. His most popular cartoon was "Injun Summer." Author: Stories of Filipino Warfare; Bird Center Cartoons; In Africa. Contributor: Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening Post.

Sources: WW53; WW47; article by Julie Rosa, Purdue Univ. Perspective, winter 1999.