Howard Chandler Christy On Sale
1910s American Realist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
People Also Browsed
1970s Op Art Abstract Prints
Offset, Lithograph
1980s Modern Abstract Prints
Offset, Lithograph
1980s Modern Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1980s Modern Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Offset
1910s American Realist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Posters
Paper
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Posters
Paper
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Vintage 1960s Contemporary Art
Paper
1960s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Offset
Vintage 1930s Czech Posters
Paper
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Vintage 1950s Czech Posters
Paper
Antique 1890s Posters
Paper
1930s Art Deco Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
Vintage 1930s British Posters
Paper
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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1910s Academic Figurative Paintings
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Howard Chandler Christy for sale on 1stDibs
Howard Chandler Christy was born in 1873 in Ohio, showed love for art at age three. Encouraged by his parents, he began with sketching and later turned to watercolors. In 1890, he left for New York to pursue his passion. Christy found a mentor in a famous painter, William Merritt Chase. He admired illustrators Howard Pyle and Edwin Austin Abbey and became a magazine illustrator. His creations included likenesses of women who would become known as "Christy Girls," similar to the famous "Gibson Girls." Married twice, his first daughter Natalie was born during his marriage to model Maybelle Thompson. His second marriage was in 1919 to Nancy Palmer. He retired from magazine illustrating in 1921. His partner until his death at age 80 was Elise Ford. They had a daughter named Holly, born in 1939. He took up professional portraiture and painted portraits for the elite including President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mr. and Mrs. Hearst and Herbert Hoover. Renowned paintings include We The People in 1937, The Signing Of The Constitution in 1940 and The Signing of The United Nations Charter in 1946–47. Christy had several works in progress when he passed away at his artist studio in 1952 at age 80. They were a portrait of Douglas Mac Arthur and a Gettysburg painting. Among Christy's honors were an honorary membership in the U.S. Naval Academy, medals from Paris and Chicago Expos and decorations from the N.Y Police Force and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Christy's magazine illustrations are collector's items.