Oscar Edward Cesare (October 7, 1883 – July 25, 1948) was a Swedish-born American caricaturist, painter, draftsman and editorial cartoonist.

[3] By 1913, his success as an illustrator allowed him to exhibit at the legendary 1913 Armory Show.

[1] In 1920, he became a regular contributor to the Sunday magazine of the New York Times and continued until a few years before his death in 1948.

[2] In October 1922 Cesare had the very rare privilege of gaining admittance to the Kremlin to paint sketches of the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin.

On July 15, 1916, Cesare married Margaret Porter, the daughter of the American writer O.