Shaw McCutcheon

Nationality: American

Affiliations: Editorial cartoonist, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, and Washington

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.

Sources: Shaw McCutcheon, 2006.