James Montgomery Flagg - part 2

 

Born in Pelham Manor, New York, James Montgomery Flagg attended several art schools, including four years spent at the Art Students League in New York City. He worked prolifically in a number of media but is best remembered for his poster designs.

By the turn of the century, Flagg had created a reputation as a graphic designer and illustrator. When the United States entered World War I, he produced his I Want You for U.S. Army poster, which quickly became a household icon and one of the most enduring images of the twentieth century. Although Flagg took the design from an earlier British work, he adapted it in a manner that immediately captured the American imagination.

Flagg is also well known for his many pen-and-ink drawings. Fascinated by the vivacity of the 1920s, he sought to capture the spirit of a prosperous nation in a number of intelligent and witty works from that period. During his career, Flagg also executed numerous portraits in oil, ranging from sensitive likenesses of family members to grand renderings of statesmen and celebrities such as Theodore Roosevelt. Smithsonian American Art Museum

For more information on Flagg, and for earlier works, see part 1 also.

This is part 2 of a 5-part series on the works of James Montgomery Flagg:

c1910 Man in profile with protruding beard, caricature

1910 Sunday Magazine of the Philadelphia Press
January 23 issue

April 1910, Illustration in Everybody's magazine for the story "A Successful Wife"
 pencil, pen, and ink on board 48.3 x 66 cm

1910 Ainslee's magazine cover
1 November issue

c1911 "$30,000 Would Make It Absolutely Certain."
watercolour, ink and wash on board 46.5 x 60 cm

1911 Sunday Magazine Of the Boston Sunday Post
March 19, 1911 issue

1911 Cupid getting married
(details not found)

1911 "Why, Cream of Wheat, of course!" advertisement
watercolour on board 66 x 45.7 cm

1912 Sunday Magazine Of the Philadelphia Press
September 15 1912 issue

1912 Life magazine cover July 11 issue
"Has this ever happened to you?"

1912 Judge magazine cover artwork
watercolour

1912 Book cover for "Officer 666" authors Barton Wood Currie & Augustin MacHugh
Published by H.K. Fly Company, New York

1912 The Adventures of Kitty Cobb

Published in The Toronto Star Weekly:

Part 2 "Her Arrival"

Part 8 Mr. Tripper Proposes

Part 14 After the Ball

Part 15 Her Champion

Part 18 Still more embarrassment

Part 20 Home in a Hot Wave

Part 21 "Sir! I am a married woman!" 
pen & ink over graphite on board 49.5 x 71.1 cm

Part 24 Palm Reading

(Unidentified part)

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1913 Berenice

1913 "She affected deep interest in the arrangement of her flowers. 'Engine trouble announced. 'Dead as side o' bacon' "

1913 Life's Little Incidents depicted by James Montgomery Flagg

1913 Judge magazine cover July 5 1912 issue
"A Man of Affairs"

1913 Judge magazine cover Kuly 26 issue
"Speak for it!"

1914 Judge magazine cover August 8 1914
"Her Steady"

1914 "I Should Worry." cover illustration for Judge magazine, February 28
pencil, watercolour & gouache on paper 50.1 x 50.1 cm

1914 "I Should Worry."
cover illustration for Judge magazine, February 28

c1914-18 Be a U.S. Marine!
colour lithograph 101.9 x 71.1 cm

1914-18 Together We Win
colour lithograph 99 x 73.6 cm

1914-18 The Navy Needs You! Don't Read American History - Make It!
colour lithograph 106.7 x 71.1 cm

1914-18 First in the Fight
colour lithograph poster 106.7 x 71.1 cm

1914-18 Our Regular Divisions
colour lithograph poster

c1915 The Bachelor Girl Confesses

c1915 The Bachelor Girl Confesses
 watercolour on paper 43.8 x 59 cm

1915 Mr. Bingle
pen & ink on board 64.8 x 44.5 cm

Frontispiece for "Mr. Bingle" by George Barr McCutcheon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.
ink on board 62.2 x 43.2 cm

1915 La Journee du Poilu (Soldier's Day)
31 October 1 November

1916 Reel Lovers
colour lithograph in Judge magazine, New York

1916 Portrait of Booth Tarkington
oil on canvas 101.6 x 127 cm
Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana

1916 Columbia
watercolour on paper 71.1 x 53.3 cm

1917 Join the Navy
 two-colour lithograph poster

1917 I Want You for U.S. Army
colour lithograph poster 101.4 x 76.1 cm

1917 Boys and Girls! You can Help your Uncle Sam Win the War
colour lithograph poster

1917 Advertisement for Murad Turkish Cigarettes
colour lithograph