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1878 Newark, New Jersey - 1956 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Known for: Magazine illustrations, cartoons, landscape and still life painting.
Gus Mager was a newspaper cartoonist for much of the first half of the century. He drew both humor strips and straight adventure strips, and Hawkshaw the Detective was his most famous feature. In... Read full biography
Gus Mager was a newspaper cartoonist for much of the first half of the century. He drew both humor strips and straight adventure strips, and Hawkshaw the Detective was his most famous feature. In addition, he was a painter and contributed to the naming of the Marx Brothers. Charles Augustus Mager... Read full biography
Gus Mager was a newspaper cartoonist for much of the first half of the century. He drew both humor strips and straight adventure strips, and Hawkshaw the Detective was his most famous feature. In addition, he was a painter and contributed to the naming of the Marx Brothers. Charles Augustus Mager was born in Newark, New Jersey, and remained there all his life. He is thought to be a self-taught artist, and, according to comics historian Bill Blackbeard, "German humor magazines featuring the... Read full biography
Gus Mager was a newspaper cartoonist for much of the first half of the century. He drew both humor strips and straight adventure strips, and Hawkshaw the Detective was his most famous feature. In addition, he was a painter and contributed to the naming of the Marx Brothers. Charles Augustus Mager was born in Newark, New Jersey, and remained there all his life. He is thought to be a self-taught artist, and, according to comics historian Bill Blackbeard, "German humor magazines featuring the cartoon art of Wilhelm Busch, Karl Arnold, and other continental giants of the time influenced his developing graphic style as a boy." After selling cartoons to magazines while in his teens, Mager went to work for Hearsts two New York dailies, the... Read full biography
Gus Mager was a newspaper cartoonist for much of the first half of the century. He drew both humor strips and straight adventure strips, and Hawkshaw the Detective was his most famous feature. In addition, he was a painter and contributed to the naming of the Marx Brothers. Charles Augustus Mager was born in Newark, New Jersey, and remained there all his life. He is thought to be a self-taught artist, and, according to comics historian Bill Blackbeard, "German humor magazines featuring the cartoon art of Wilhelm Busch, Karl Arnold, and other continental giants of the time influenced his developing graphic style as a boy." After selling cartoons to magazines while in his teens, Mager went to work for Hearsts two New York dailies, the Journal and the American, near the turn of the century. He had an affinity for drawing animals; by 1904... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Cartoon Drawing, Cartoon Figures
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Comic Strip/Book Humor
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Self-Portrait
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •New Hope, Pennslvania/Lambertville New Jersey
Art Association
- •Salons of America
- •Society of Independent Artists-
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Cartoon Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Salons of America-
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
- •Armory Show 1913, New York
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts