Chambers, Charles Edward (sold)
Charles Edward Chambers (August 9, 1883 - November 5, 1941) was an American illustrator and painter. Chambers was born in Ottumwa, Iowa. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then at the National Academy of Design, where he studied under George Bridgman. Chambers produced numerous illustrations for writers such as Pearl Buck, Louis Bromfield, Faith Baldwin, and W. Somerset Maugham, as well as for magazines, including Harper's, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Home Companion, Ladies' Home Journal, and McCall's. During World War I (1914 - 1818) he illustrated a famous poster for the Food and Drug Administration extorting immigrants to aid in the war effort. This popular poster was issued in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, and Hungarian. He went on to produced advertising illustrations for Chesterfield Cigarettes and Steinway and Sons. In 1931, he was awarded the 2nd Altman Prize at the National Academy of Design Exhibition, and in 2010, posthumously, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Society of Illustrators.
Jewish-American immigrant patriotism in WWI.
[Food will win the war!] / שפייז וועט געווינען דיא קריעג!
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A significant 1917 World War I propaganda poster in Yiddish illustrated by Charles Edward Chambers and published by the United States Food Administration. The poster appeals to Jewish immigrants to save food, particularly wheat, for the Allied war effort by suggesting that the European war was a threat to their hard-won freedom. (more details)