Christy, Howard Chandler (1872-1952) Clear the Way
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09676.01 Author/Creator: Christy, Howard Chandler (1872-1952) Place Written: s.l. Type: Poster Date: 1919 Pagination: 1 poster ; 76 cm. x 50 cm. Order a Copy
One poster illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy of a World War I poster labeled "Clear the Way" including a mesage to buy bonds at Fourth Liberty Loan. Imagery contains an allegorical female representing America and sailors loading a torpedo into a canon aboard a ship.
Howard Chandler Christy was an American artist renowned for painting portraits during the Jazz Age. His war portraits consisted of patriotic posters for the Navy and Marine Corps. He also painted portraits of politicians such as Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, and other socialites, senators, celebrities.
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