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 (39 total)
- Virginia Harned as ‘Alice of old Vincennes’ 1902
- An Elegant Lady in a Fur-Trimmed Coat 1902
- In the Garden of Eden 1925
- The Lover’s Moment — The Beginning of Their First Apple Pie c. 1912
- In Grateful Memory of the Brave Men Who Have Given Lives for Their Country
- In the Courtyard 1916
- Listening 1915
- Clear the Way !!. Buy bonds. Fourth Liberty loan 1918
- Scribner’s for March 1899 - 1906
- If you want to fight! Join the Marines 1915
- Happy Motoring (The Happy Ending) 1919
- The Sagamore and the Lady 1913
- I Want You For the Navy 1917
- The Gala 1900
- New York Spring horse show, Durland’s Academy 1919
- A Modern-Day Motoring Couple 1912
- When Knighthood Was in Flower 1899
- Americans All! Victory Liberty Loan 1919
- La Vision Eterna, 1492…1942
- In the Field 1902