Charles Bragg was born in St. Louis, studied at the Art Students League in New York, and now lives in Los Angeles. The turning point in Bragg's career came in the early 1960s when he decided to exhibit some of his work that was far from the mainstream of the art trends of the day. Biting caricatures, reminiscent of Daumier, called attention to a cast of characters who had "lost their souls while acting out depravities through tragicomic burlesques of morality and ethics." He poked fun at the military, the clergy, and professions - and his shows sold out. During the 1970s Bragg "mellowed," turning from occupational diatribes to universal weaknesses and temptations of the flesh. He continued to poke fun at the mentality of his subjects in his paintings, drawings, etchings, and lithographs. His work is found in the collections of at least twenty international museums, including the Joseph Hirshhorn Collection in Washington, D.C., the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.