- Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Title:
- "Beautiful Dreamer" by Howard Chandler Christy Stephen Foster Memorial, White Springs, Florida
- Creator:
- W. M. Cline Co. (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
- Publisher:
- Chattanooga, TN: W. M. Cline Co.
- Date of Original:
- 1968
- Subject:
- Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952
Foster, Stephen C. (Stephen Collins), 1826-1864
Museums--Florida--White Springs
Postcards--Florida--White Springs - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Postcard (color, divided back, 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches) titled - "Beautiful Dreamer" by Howard Chandler Christy, Stephen Foster Memorial, White Springs, Florida. This postcard features a painting of Stephen Foster by Howard Chandler Christy. Howard Chandler Christy (January 10, 1872 – March 3, 1952) 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." Text on reverse: One of two large paintings by Howard Chandler Christy. Foster Museum, Stephen Foster Memorial, White Springs, Florida. Photographed in Natural Color by Walter Cline. Postage affixed: gray Washington 5 cent stamp. Postmarked March 13, 1968, White Springs, Fl. Card number S-6306-2
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-477
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-477#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-477/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : col. ill.
- Original Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System
- Rights:
-
