Artist · United States
“cartoonist”
1852
Saugerties
United States
illustrator
1938
Leon Barritt.
United States, 1852 to 1938
Leon Barritt (1852 to 1938) was an American illustrator, cartoonist, journalist, and amateur astronomer. He produced a famous cartoon satirizing Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, co-invented with Garrett P. Serviss the Barritt-Serviss Star and Planet Finder, a popular star chart sold into the 1950s, and, after losing his artistic ability to paralysis, founded The Monthly Evening Sky Map magazine. Born in Saugerties, New York, he began as a news agent in his home town before moving to Boston to work as an engraver.
Biodata
- Born
- 1852, Saugerties
- Died
- 1938
- Citizenship
- United States
- Work
- cartoonist, illustrator
Leon Barritt, in numbers
Sketchbook