Dwight Case Sturges, printmaker, painter, illustrator, and cartoonist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1874 and studied in his hometown at the Cowles Art School. Newspaper illustration became his livelihood and he worked for the Boston Globe and began working for Christian Science Monitor in 1917.

Sturges took up etching in 1908 as a hobby and installed an etching press in his attic. After 1917, he worked primarily in etching and was a member of and exhibited with the Chicago Society of Etchers, the Canadian Society of Etchers, the California Printmakers, American Federation of Arts, and the Society of American Etchers. His work was included in the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts acquired a few of his etching in 1917. Sturges is also represented in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; the Portland Art Museum, Oregon; the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington.

Dwight Case Sturges died 4 September 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts.