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ARMY of ARTISTS While Soldiers Fought in Europe During World War I, American Artists and Illustrators Waged War from a Di Erent Front—Their Easels by Michael Clawson Frank Godwin (1889-1959), Philadelphia Patriotic Scene, 1917, for World War I poster and War Savings Stamps Drive. Gouache on board, 18½ x 17 in., signed lower left. Opposite page: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Till the Boys Come Home, for a Life Magazine cover, August 15, 1916. Oil on canvas, 29½ x 23½ in., signed lower right. ARMY of ARTISTS While soldiers fought in Europe during World War I, American artists and illustrators waged war from a di erent front—their easels By Michael Clawson hen Woodrow Wilson ran of miles away. “Every man who really By 1915, German submarines were for president, an o ce he loves America will act and speak in sinking boats throughout the Atlantic, Wwould eventually win in the true spirit of neutrality, which is including the Lusitania, which went 1912, he campaigned as a paci st. Later, the spirit of impartiality and fairness down o the coast of Ireland, taking as World War I heated up in Europe, and friendliness to all concerned,” nearly 1,200 souls with it. President Wilson was determined to stay out of he proclaimed in 1914 in an o cial Wilson’s resolve for neutrality was the war, even imploring Americans to statement to the American people, quickly collapsing. maintain a position of neutrality to the many of whom shared his hesitancy to The rest, of course, is in the great con ict taking place thousands get involved in world a airs. history books, usually in a chapter 52 AmericanIllustration.indd 52 6/5/18 12:38 PM 53 AmericanIllustration.indd 53 6/5/18 12:38 PM Franklin Booth (1874-1948), How Much Will You Howard Chandler Christy (1872-1952), Gee!! Lend to the Boys Who Are Giving All. Lithograph, I Wish I Were a Man. I’d Join the Navy, Naval 411/8 x 27¼ in., signed upper left. United States Reserve or Coast Guard, 1918. Original poster, Printing & Lithographic Co., New York. 41 x 27 in. called simply “World War I.” But impressionists were copying Europeans one aspect of America’s involvement and doing their own thing here in in the Great War that often doesn’t America, there were avant-garde make the history books involves the artists…all of it was very peaceful Committee on Public Information, a and wonderful, but there was no benign-sounding government body real purpose for it. These illustrators Cushman Parker (1881-1940), Little Americans: that had one job: to use every medium had a purpose. They wanted to Do Your Bit, 1917, for United States Food Administration posters, 1918-1919. Oil on available to it to drum up support send a message,” Cutler says. “It was canvas, 18 x 18 in., signed lower right for the war and later help fund it the strength of their illustration through war bonds. The artists who that powered public sentiment and would eventually participate with the propelled us through the war.” committee and the war efforts are The exhibition focuses mostly on One reads: “Gee!! I wish I were a regarded today as master illustrators the works created from a group within man—I’d join the Navy.” of the period: Charles Dana Gibson, the Committee on Public Information, “Women were used as this ideal, this W.H.D. Koerner, Howard Chandler the Division of Pictorial Publicity, wonderful value that we were fighting Christy, Norman Rockwell, James which was responsible for posters, cards for. Women, of course, were at home. Montgomery Flagg, J.C. Leyendecker and cartoons related to the war. Many They were allowed in the service as and many others. of these works asked Americans who Yeomanettes in limited roles, mostly Their works related to the war are couldn’t fight to do their part. A work nurses, teachers or Red Cross workers. now on view in American Illustration by Edith Emerson asks viewers to “Sew They were painted inspirationally, like and the First World War at the National for Our Soldiers” by mending soldiers’ Greek goddesses,” Cutler says. “They Museum of American Illustration in clothes. Another by Cushman Parker were emotional paintings and women Newport, Rhode Island. Judy Goffman implores children to “Do your bit: Eat inspired that emotion, whether it was Cutler, director and co-founder of the oatmeal—corn meal mush—hominy— to love, to nurture or for sympathy.” museum, says the works created by the other corn cereals—and rice with milk. American Illustration and the First World Committee on Public Information were Save the wheat for our soldiers. Leave War will also features an original poster meant to shift public opinion about the nothing on your plate.” Other works of what is arguably the most famous war, and also to inspire patriotism for are recruitment posters for military-age war illustration ever made: Flagg’s I American efforts overseas. men (and only men). In two posters by Want You poster featuring Uncle Sam “At the time, fine artists were Christy, women are shown in military jabbing his finger emphatically at the painting beautiful landscapes, uniform imploring men to sign up. viewer. Flagg did not invent Uncle 54 AmericanIllustration.indd 54 6/5/18 12:38 PM Sam, but his depiction of the patriotic “Propaganda took on such a negative its reds and blues light up the canvas. figure—using his own face as a model, connotation. It is so powerful at Gerrit A. Beneker’s Partners for Victory albeit aged considerably—set the shaping ideas,” she says, adding that shares some qualities, mostly its vivid standard for more than a century. these World War I images were less color, as three figures—Lady Liberty, a In addition to a variety of works about spreading false information, and blue-collar worker and a soldier—gaze that focus on war bonds—Franklin more about getting people involved into brilliant sunlight. Booth’s fiery orange How Much Will in something the country was deeply Rockwell’s Till the Boys Come You Lend to the Boys Who Are Giving All committed to overseas. Home, which was the cover of a 1916 is a noteworthy example—many of the In addition to advocating for certain issue of Life magazine, strikes a more works in the exhibition are also posters kinds of behaviors or donations, many mournful tone as the iconic illustrator meant to sway public opinion, from of the images were meant to invoke paints women on a beach agonizingly grand ideas about the war (“Together patriotism. Frank Godwin’s Philadelphia waiting for their soldiers to come home. We Win” and “Partners for Victory”) Patriotic Scene is a perfect example of Anxiousness and despair fill their eyes as all the way down to hyper-specific this, with its flag-waving Boy Scouts they watch the ocean for returning ships. policy issues, such as Flagg’s poster and other children arranged in a “They look so sad. In one case, the girl encouraging aid to China (“China is layered composition in front of some of looks sort of lost, but I think of them Helping Us!”). Today some of these Philadelphia’s most patriotic buildings as hopeful. It was still a time when they works might fall into the category of and monuments. The fluttering flag weren’t sure if the soldiers would return propaganda, but Cutler resists the term. consumes a third of the painting, and or not. They sent letters, and the guys wrote back, but no one was sure what was really happening, a point Rockwell makes clear with the censored letters at their feet,” Cutler says, adding that the museum will have the original Rockwell painting and the Life issue it appeared on in the exhibition. Other works include Leyendecker’s Europe at War – New Year’s Baby 1917, a Saturday Evening Post cover showing his iconic baby figure reacting to a globe that seems to be exploding outward from France, and Norman Price’s Bagged in France, a work later used for Hercules Sporting Powders that shows a father opening a crate filled with war items sent from his son fighting overseas. One thing that is absent from many of the works: violence, gore and death. “These are romantic works in a way. People didn’t want to look at war,” Cutler says. “War is ugly, but the artists found a way to present it to the American public in a way that encouraged them to get involved.” Through December 28 American Illustration and the First World War National Museum of American Illustration 492 Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI 02840 t: (401) 851-8949 J.C. Leyendecker (1874-1951), Europe at War – New Year’s Baby 1917, 1916, for The Saturday Evening www.americanillustration.org Post cover, December 30, 1916. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18½ in., signed lower right. 55 AmericanIllustration.indd 55 6/5/18 12:38 PM.
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