Charles Green Bush
Bush’s political caricatures could be bitter satires while his domestic scenes depicted the impact of government policies on the less fortunate. He developed a visual style where the viewer’s eye-level focused on the center of the drawing. Overhead, figures dramatically foreshortened overhead. Below, floors and surfaces tilted and seemed to fall away.
Charles Green Bush
Charles Green Bush (a.k.a. C. G. Bush) was recognized by contemporaries as “The Master of the Cartoon.”
He was published in the great daily newspapers of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, New Orleans, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other cities, large and small. Bush often created three large cartoons in a single day, producing thousands of drawings in a career that spanned four decades.
Bush’s political caricatures could be bitter critiques while his social satires depicted domestic scenes with keen insight. He developed a visual style that sets the center of the cartoon at eye-level while above, figures are dramatically foreshortened and below, the ground tilts and seems to fall away.
Articles on Charles Green Bush:
“A Master Cartoonist,” The World’s Work, February 1901
“Mr. Bush and His Cartoons,” The Review of Reviews, June 1897
