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Poster: If You Want to Fight! - Join the Marines
Howard Chandler Christy, 1873 - 1952
Christy, Howard Chandler
United States
1873 - 1952
Male
Primary
40 1/4 x 30 1/8 in. (102.2 x 76.5 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1915
1915
1915
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war, women
Print
The Christy Girl-- part goddess, part girl-next-door-- was a popular figure created by illustrator Howard Chandler Christy. In his war posters, the artist often used the Christy Girl, plus a heady dose of sex appeal, to convey the message "real men go to war."
In If You Want to Fight! a young woman plays "dress up" in Marine uniform. Her playful posturing enhances the masculine nature of war; while she wears her uniform to be fetching, the soldiers wear their uniforms to go to battle.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
2022.19
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/29/2006
2022.19DI#1
digital image
full
3/28/2006
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00/00/00
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2022.19DI#3
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9/1/2023
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