James Montgomery Flagg

James Montgomery Flagg ( born June 18, 1877 in Pelham Manor, New York, † May 27, 1960 in New York City ) was an American artist and illustrator.

At the age of twelve years, it should be Flagg managed to publish his first drawings. At 14, he worked for Life magazine; later for the Judge Magazine. After studying art in London and Paris Flagg returned to the USA and illustrated books and magazines. He made his best-known images of the U.S. armed forces. The one with " I Want You for U.S. Army" interpretive at the viewer Uncle Sam, is said to have taken for the Flagg supposedly his own physiognomy as a model, advertised already during the First World War for the soldiers' obligation as a patriotic act, was published again in World War II and still finds use. In addition to this distinguished Flagg also more posters for the Army, as he made various other advertising posters and film posters. Especially famous was the campaign he led for in of Shangri -La (Lost Horizon) by Frank Capra.