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.
Self portrait
Christy's 1915 painting Halloween, published in the January 1916 issue of Scribner's Magazine
If You Want to Fight! Join the Marines, c. 1915
Official portrait of First Lady Grace Coolidge, 1924
The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. The artist saw his creation as representing the composite of "thousands of American girls".
An iconic Gibson Girl portrait by its creator, Charles Dana Gibson, circa 1891
Gibson Girls at the beach (circa 1900)
"The Crush" (1901)
"Love in a Garden" (1901)