Painting America's Portrait - How Illustrators Created America, by James C. Thompson

Look Inside! Author: James C. Thompson | Show Publication detailsHide Publication details Clothe Edition: ISBN: 978-1-943642-41-0 Size: 9 x 12 Pages: 250 Images: 150 Release Date: 6 April 2017 Retail Price: $50.00 “Painting America’s Portrait – How Illustrators Created America” is the second book in the “Painting America’s Portrait” series. In the first, James Thompson uses over 300 illustrations to show how America’s artist admen and storytellers capitalized on three decades of advances in corporate advertising and image reproduction technology to create highly dramatic and colorful images. Their business during these notorious decades was to sell products with pictures. By 1914, they were better and more successful than ever. Their success notwithstanding their Golden Age ended with the Great War. Mr. Thompson begins his sequel with an account of the war prior to America’s entry in April 1917. Among the first acts of America’s wartime President was to create a “Committee of Publi