Artist · United States

1896 to 1973

Work

“comics artist”

Portrait of Coulton Waugh
Born1896
CountryUnited States
Alsowriter
Died1973
Died inNewburgh

Coulton Waugh.

comics artist · writer

United States, 1896 to 1973

In short

Frederick Coulton Waugh (10 March 1896 to 23 May 1973) was a cartoonist, painter, teacher and author, best known for his illustration work on the comic strip Dickie Dare and his book The Comics (1947), the first major study of the field. His father was the marine artist Frederick Judd Waugh, and his grandfather was the Philadelphia portrait painter Samuel Waugh. Born in Cornwall, England, in 1896, in 1907 his family moved to the United States, and Waugh was enrolled at New York's Art Students League where he studied with George Bridgman, Frank Dumond and John Carlson.

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Born
1896
Died
1973, Newburgh
Citizenship
United States
Work
comics artist, writer, painter, caricaturist
Career

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Lifetime

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Portrait of Coulton Waugh