Americans All! / Poster for Victory Liberty Loan
Date1919
Artist
Howard Chandler Christy
(American illustrator and painter, 1873–1952)
Illustration CitationPoster for Victory Liberty Loan
MediumColor lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 40 × 26 1/2 in. (101.6 × 67.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-377
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextIllustrator Howard Chandler Christy designed many World War I posters, most of them prominently featuring images of women in the style of the "Christy Girl," a type he had made famous as a model of American beauty. Here an allegorical figure of America holds a wreath over a list of war dead representing several ethnic groups. Christy was a member of the US government's Department of Pictorial Publicity committee, commissioned to generate Americans' support of the war.
Joseph Christian Leyendecker
1918
