Pastel on paper 19 x 15 in. The following is from Rick Bart of Taunton, MA, who wrote: \"In 1999 I wrote a genealogy book on the Pease Family From Great Baddow England. This is what I know about Lute Pease. I supplied his ancestry; and the \'bio\' is from \"Encyclopedia of American Biography New Series\" by Edward N. Dodge 1967\".Lucius (Lute) Curtis, was the son of Lucius Curtis (George, Elijah, William, Nathaniel, Robert, Robert, Robert) and Mary Isabel (Hutton) Pease. He was born March 27, 1869 in Winnemucca, a Nevada mining town, and died August 16, 1963 in Maplewood, New Jersey (although there are no records of his death in Maplewood, nor nearby towns of Livingston and Summit); On June 22, 1905, he married Nell Christmas McMullin; born 1883 in Steubenville, Ohio. She was an artist who studied at the Corcoran School of Art, and became an illustrator for the \"Pacific Monthly\". His maternal grandfather was a Superior Court judge in Malone, NY.Lute was orphaned at age five, and placed in care of his paternal grandfather in Charlotte, VT, where he stayed on a farm until age sixteen. He had artistic talents early; drawing barnyard animals at age six, and caricatures of his teachers in school. He was sent to New York for his secondary education, and graduated from Franklin Academy in Malone in 1887. From there, he moved out West to become a teamster and ranch hand at the Elwood Cooper Ranch near Santa Barbara, CA..During the next fifteen years, he was employed as a horticultural salesman, mined for gold in the Klondike and Yukon, managed a hotel, and from 1901 to 1902, he was the first resident US Commissioner in Nome, Alaska for the Yotzebue Sound Point Hope District. During those years, Lute Pease was also a reporter and a political cartoonist (1895-1897) for the \"Portland Oregonian\", a job he landed after submitting drawings of a murder and suicide he witnessed on the street. One of his interviews was with Mark Twain.From 1897-1902, he was in Alaska, returning to the \"Oregonian\" after that. During his stay in Alaska, he sent publications to the \"Seattle Post-Intelligencer\".From 1905-1912, Lute Pease was the editor-in-chief of the \"Pacific Monthly\" in Portland, assisted by his wife, who was an artist. During that time, he wrote a number of articles on the West, on Alaska, and on the Alaskan Gold Rush. Circulation of the paper increased from 40,000 to 100,000, and one of his articles appeared in \"Colliers\" (Sep.. 18, 1909). After author Jack London\'s novel \"Martin Eden\" had been rejected by publishers in the East, Lute Pease accepted it for publication, and illustrated it for the \"Pacific Monthly\".About 1913, Nell\'s ill health forced the couple to Washington, DC, where she was treated. Lute did some freelancing, and in June 1914, became a political cartoonist for the \"Newark, New Jersey Evening News\". On May 02, 1949, Pease was awarded the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for \"a distinguished example of a cartoonists work.\" The recognized work was a cartoon, \"Who Me?\" that Pease had drawn for the \"Evening News\", and it was published April 06, 1948. The cartoon depicted a scolding robed judge, labeled \"Court Order\", and had a caricatured John L. Lewis. (He was a United Mine Workers Union Leader during the Coal Strike of the Spring of 1948). Lewis was standing in front of a broken store window with a pick ax behind his back. The hole in the window was labeled \"Coal Strike\" , and the store itself labeled \"USEconomy\".Pease was 80 years old, making him the oldest person at that time to win the Pulitzer Prize. Lute Pease was also a painter, who was taught the fundamentals by his wife, Nell. A portrait of Wallace M. Scudder, president of the Newark Museum Association, done by Pease hung in the Newark Museum.

Good condition, torn corner