Howard Chandler Christy
Defined by iconic Christy Girls and historic portraits
Howard Chandler Christy was an American artist and illustrator. Famous for the "Christy Girl" – a colorful and illustrious successor to the "Gibson Girl" – Christy is also widely known for his iconic WWI military recruitment and Liberty loan posters, along with his 1940 masterpiece titled, Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, which is installed along the east stairwell of the United States Capitol. From the 1920s until the early 1950s, Christy was active as a portrait painter whose sitters included presidents, senators, industrialists, movies stars, and socialites. He painted Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, and Presidents Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Harry Truman. Other famous people he painted include William Randolph Hearst, the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII), Eddie Rickenbacker, Benito Mussolini, Prince Umberto, and Amelia Earhart. By 1938, Time magazine proclaimed Christy "the most commercially successful U.S. artist."
Artworks by this artist
- Fight or Buy bonds. Third Liberty loan 1917
- A Modern-Day Motoring Couple 1912
- New York Spring horse show, Durland’s Academy 1919
- In the Courtyard 1916
- The Photo Shoot 1921
- Two Women 1924
- The Girl Looked At Her and Passed On 1903
- A Fair Weather Love 1925
- Man and Woman in a Garden 1911
- Scribner’s for April 1899 - 1906
- Sketch for Balboa Fountain 1925
- The Gala 1900
- Happy Motoring (The Happy Ending) 1919
- The Battle of Sanitago 1899
- The Constitution of the United States “The Signing” 1900
- An Elegant Lady in a Fur-Trimmed Coat 1902
- In Grateful Memory of the Brave Men Who Have Given Lives for Their Country
- The Suitors 1910
- La Vision Eterna, 1492…1942
- Listening 1915