#otho cushing

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Selection of Otho Cushing’s illustrations  — Part 3.

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Otho Cushing 1902

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Otho Cushing (1870 - 1942)

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Otho Cushing (American, 1870-1942), At the Betrayers' Club

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The cover of a December 1914 issue of Life magazine, featuring art by Otho Cushing.

Titled "Weren't They Funny?", the illustration depicts a couple from 1950 looking at pictures of a couple from 1914, offering a perspective on the passage of time and how perceptions of style and appearance can change.

American artist Otho Cushing (born 22nd October 1870, died 13 October 1942, nine days before his his 70th birthday) is best remembered for his drawings of handsome young men in Greek and modern costumes, who provided illustration and cartoons, for various magazines and posters. His sometimes-homoerotic style, often featuring classical figures, was influenced by Frederic Leighton, J. C. Leyendecker and Aubrey Beardsley.

More info https://artvee.com/artist/otho-cushing/

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Artist Spotlight: Otho Cushing

Contemporary with J.C. Leyendecker, and Charles Dana Gibson, and heir to the licentious line art of Aubrey Beardsley, Cushing was a mainstream illustrator with a decidedly gay pen stroke.

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The Smithsonian Archive records that Cushing was born in 1871 in Fort McHenry, Maryland. He received art training from the Boston School of Fine Arts, graduating with honors. He later studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. He returned to the United States and became a professor of drawing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He returned to Paris to accept the position of art editor for the European edition of the Herald-Tribune after the turn of the century. Cushing submitted his first cartoons to Life in late 1906, which were accepted and accompanied by an offer to join the magazine's staff. During World War I Cushing left Life and served in the Army Air Corps. He retired to his home in New Rochelle, New York, after the war and was a successful watercolorist. Cushing died in New Rochelle, New York, 13 October, 1942.

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Drawing by Otho Cushing “Haec Olim Meminisse Juvabit” “This Time We Will” 1899

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Selection of Otho Cushing’s illustrations  — Part 1.

Parts: 1 / 2 / 3