Howard
Chandler Christy was
born in Ohio in 1873. He studied in New York
at the National Academy of Design and at the Art
Students League. He worked as an illustrator for Scribner's
Magazine and during the Spanish American War he accompanied
the United States Army to Cuba.
During the First World War Christy produced
several notable posters including Gee! I
Wish I Were A Man and The Spirit
of America.
After the war Christy concentrated on portrait painting. He also painted
the mural, The Signing of the Constitution
in the Rotunda in Washington. Howard Chandler
Christy died in 1952.
Howard Christy, USA Navy poster (1917)
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