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McCutcheon, Shaw

Last Name: McCutcheon
First Name: Shaw
Dates:
*1921 (Date of Birth)
Biography/History: Shaw McCutcheon, an astute political observer of local, regional, and national politics was the editorial cartoonist for The Spokesman-Review from 1950 to 1986. The Spokesman-Review's former staff member Shaw McCutcheon stopped playing golf long enough in 2005 to allow the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture to cull through his extensive archives and select a number of cartoons highlighting his long career as editorial cartoonist at the newspaper to add to the museum's permanent collection. Interestingly, McCutcheon's father was editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune (1903-1946). Shaw McCutcheon majored in math at Harvard University, served as a B-17 weather officer during World War II, received art training at the Chicago Academy of Art, and then began a thirty-six year editorial cartoonist career (1950-1986) at the Spokane newspaper. His insightful cartoons examined local, regional, and national social, economic, and political events. The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture holds McCutcheon cartoons in its art and archival collections spanning his thirty year career with The Spokesman-Review.
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3677.1 (Cartoon; Drawing, Heap Big Change Since I was Here Last - Ugh!, April 8, 1951)
4124.1 (Cartoon, To The Wampum Benefit Auction, June 8, 1969)
4124.10 (Cartoon, At Cross-Purposes, March 6, 1957)
4124.11 (Cartoon, Using All Of The Keys Produces Richer Harmony, Unknown)
4124.12 (Cartoon, Anyone For A Safe-And-Sane 5th, 6th, 7th, etc.?, Unknown)
4124.13 (Cartoon, Back When Wars Had Ends, November, 11, 1970)
4124.14 (Cartoon, The Grateful Throng Welcomes the Returning Hero, c. 1970)
4124.2 (Cartoon, Big Demonstration FOR Something for a Change, May 17 1969)
4124.3 (Cartoon, My Fair Lady, January 20, 1968)
4124.4 (Cartoon, Recipe for Half-Baked Idaho Potatoes)
4124.6 (Cartoon, The Best Way to Fully Appreciate One's Progress, January 27, 1963)
4124.7 (Cartoon, Let's Not Become So Absorbed Admiring The Picture That The Paint Water Inadvertently Spills On It., August 18, 1968)
4124.8 (Cartoon, Newest Member of the Board of Direction)
4124.9 (Cartoon, Thanksgiving Wishbone, November 23, 1968)