THE PORTRAITIST
n 1918, as the United States was preparing to enter World War I, the government commissioned J. C. Leyendecker, a famous illustrator in New York, to create a poster for its Third Liberty Loan Campaign, which aimed to enlist members of the Boy Scouts of America in the drive to sell war bonds. Leyendecker nearly always used models for his illustrations, as he’d done with his famous renditions of the Arrow Collar Man, and so George Harris,
