remember the name, Louis Suto) lived in half the house the year round and farmed the place. The Magers would spend part of the summer months there. Later, his father and mother purchased the next property at the foot of the hill... Every few months, the Magers would visit my store. His wife Matilda visited with my Mother, and he enjoyed seeing the people come in the store. It was very easy for him to find something to chat about with anyone. Little did these people know that they were chatting with a great, talented artist. He especially enjoyed talking about old times with the old-timers that would often hang around the store. Back in the cracker barrel days, he used to join the group each evening at the SandBrook store. After continuous invitations to visit the Magers, my Mother, sister and I finally arranged to visit them in Milburn, N.J., where they lived after moving from Newark. Their home was not in the town but far out in the outskirts surrounded by the nature of the countryside. When he took us into the basement of his beautiful home, it was almost a museum, with piles of paintings on the wall and on tables. Actually, his work was his enjoyment. He told me that each morning, he would take a long walk through the fields and woods, that he would get some idea of nature for a painting, and he would come back and spend the day perfecting that idea. You can't conceive what a pile of paintings he had turned out, all of them beautiful, painted for enjoyment. After his wife's death, Mager went to live with his son in Pennsylvania. At age 77, he died of cancer in 1956. See also List of artists in the Armory Show References External links Toonopedia: Hawkshaw Barnacle Press: Monks Barnacle Press: Hawkshaw the Detective Hawkshaw and Howard 1878 births 1956 deaths People from New Jersey American comic strip cartoonists American comics artists American illustrators 20th-century American painters The New Yorker cartoonists American people of German descent Deaths from cancer in Pennsylvania 19th-century American painters