Gluyas Williams
Cartoonist, Author
1888 – 1982
Who was Gluyas Williams?
Gluyas Williams was an American cartoonist, notable for his contributions to The New Yorker and other major magazines.
Born in San Francisco, California, he graduated from Harvard in 1911. In college, he was a member of the Harvard Lampoon.
His cartoons employed a clean black-and-white style and often dealt with prevailing themes of the day such as Prohibition. His work appeared in Life, Collier's, Century and The New Yorker. He was also syndicated to such newspapers as The Plain Dealer. According to his obituary in The New York Times, by the time he retired in 1953, about five million regular readers had seen his cartoons, which ran in more than 70 newspapers.
During the 1940s, he worked in Boston at 194 Boylston Street. When he died at the age of 93, he was living in Newton, Massachusetts.
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- Born
- Jul 23, 1888
San Francisco - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Died
- Feb 13, 1982
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on July 23, 2013
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