Artist: James Montgomery Flagg
Title: Wake Up America Day
Paper Size: 12 inches x 18 inches
Image Size: 11.55 inches x 17.1 inches
This fine art print was reproduced on the highest quality paper to capture the vivid color and detail of the original artwork.
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James Montgomery Flagg (June 18, 1877 – May 27, 1960) was an American artist and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his posters.
Flagg was born in Pelham Manor, New York. He was enthusiastic about drawing from a young age, and had illustrations accepted by national magazines by the age of twelve years. By fourteen he was a contributing artist for Life Magazine, and the following year was on the staff of Judge magazine. From 1894 through 1898 he attended the Art Students League of New York, studied fine art in London and Paris in his early twenties, then returned to the United States, where he produced illustrations for books, magazine covers, political and humorous cartoons, advertising, and spot drawings prolifically. At his peak, Flagg was reported to have been the highest paid magazine illustrator in America[citation needed].
His most famous poster was created in 1917 to encourage recruitment in the United States Army during World War I. It showed Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer (inspired by a British recruitment poster showing Lord Kitchener in a similar pose) with the caption "I Want YOU for U. S. Army". Over four million copies of the poster were printed during World War I, and it was revived for World War II. Flagg used his own face for that of Uncle Sam (adding age and the white goatee), he said later simply to avoid the trouble of arranging for a model.
In 1946 Flagg published his autobiography, Roses and Buckshot.
James Montgomery Flagg died in New York City and was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery. |
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