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Shaw McCutcheon
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Shaw McCutcheon

Cartoonist for the Spokesman Review, American, 1921 - 2016
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Place of BirthChicago, Illinois, United States
Place WorkedSpokane, Washington, United States
Howard Shaw McCutcheon was born in Chicago, Illinois, in October 1921. He was an American newspaper editorial cartoonist. McCutcheon graduated from Harvard University with a degree in mathematics in 1943. After serving in the United States military during World War II, he returned to his study of art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. McCutcheon spent thirty-six years (1950–1986) as an editorial cartoonist for the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. Examples of his work are in the permanent collection of the Northwest Museum of Art & Culture in Spokane.