Nell
Brinkley was
born in 1888.
A self-taught artist she worked for William
Randolph Hearst and his numerous publications. She created what
became known as the Brinkley Girl and used this character in her First
World War drawing, The
Three Graces.
The drawing was accompanied by the words: "Any man who loves
and reveres his mother and his country should idolize, if he worship
at all, the three graces, Suffrage, Preparedness and Americanism."
Brinkley, who was married to Bruce
MacRae, died in 1944.
Nell Brinkley, The Three Graces
(1916)
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