1917 MILITARY WWI UNCLE SAM ARMY SCHOOL GARDEN MARGINEL BARNEY POSTER ART 318808

Description: DESCRIPTION OF ITEM: THIS REPRODUCTION WWI PROMOTIONAL POSTER SHOWS UNCLE SAM PLAYING A FIFE AND LEADING A GROUP OF CHILDREN CARRYING GARDEN TOOLS....AND IT READS, "FOLLOW THE PIED PIPER, JOIN THE UNITED STATES SCHOOL GARDEN". THE UNITED STATES SCHOOL GARDEN ARMY WAS FOUNDED BY THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION IN 1917 AND WAS DESIGNED TO BE A PATRIOTIC EFFORT TO ENCOURAGE GARDENING AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN IN THE HOPES OF PREVENTING A POTENTIAL FOOD SCARCITY ISSUE AFTER WORLD WAR 1. FAMOUS ARTIST, MAGINEL WRIGHT BARNEY, WAS COMMISSIONED FOR THIS PIECE BECAUSE OF HER FAME WITH CHILDRENS' BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS. SHE ALSO RECEIVES FAME FOR BEING THE YOUNGER SISTER OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. ARTIST: MAGINEL WRIGHT BARNEY Maginel Wright Enright Barney (June 19, 1877 – April 18, 1966) was an American children's book illustrator and graphic artist. She was the younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, and the mother of Elizabeth Enright, children's book writer and illustrator. Wright Enright was born Margaret Ellen Wright in Weymouth, Massachusetts, the third child of William and Anna Wright. The name "Maginel" was a later creation of her mother's, a contraction of "Maggie Nell". At age two the family moved to Madison, Wisconsin. Ten years later they moved to Chicago, to be closer to Frank's architectural work, where she eventually attended the Chicago Art Institute. Her first job as a commercial artist was with the Barnes, Crosby Co. of Chicago, where her main task was catalog illustration. There she met Walter J. "Pat" Enright, another young artist, whom she married. Wright Enright gave birth to her daughter Elizabeth on September 17, 1907, in Oak Park, Illinois. The Enrights moved to New York City for their careers and enjoyed an active social life there. After their divorce, Wright Enright married Hiram Barney, a lawyer who died in 1925. Wright Enright's autobiography, The Valley of the God-Almighty Joneses, was published in 1965, one year before her death in East Hampton, New York. It was under the name of Maginel Wright Enright that she conducted her professional career. She illustrated 63 children's books during her lifetime, sometimes working alone and sometimes with other artists. Her first job as a book illustrator was on The Twinkle Tales, a set of six booklets for young children published by Reilly & Britton in 1906, and written by L. Frank Baum under the pseudonym "Laura Bancroft." The books were successful, selling 40,000 copies the first year. Wright Enright also illustrated Baum's Policeman Bluejay (1907) and L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker (1910, with John R. Neill). (Her husband also worked on the Baum canon: Walter Enright illustrated Baum's Father Goose's Year Book in 1907.) She illustrated the book Flower Fairies, an alternate version of this title, written by Clara Ingram Judson, in 1915. She also illustrated editions of Johanna Spyri's Heidi (1921) and Mary Mapes Dodge's Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates (with Edna Cooke, 1918). She was acclaimed as one of "the very best artists" for children. She wrote and illustrated The Baby's Record Through the First Year in Song and Story (1928), and compiled and illustrated Weather Signs and Rhymes (1931). She also illustrated textbooks for children, mainly readers for younger children. Her daughter Elizabeth Enright credits Wright Enright with "the revolutionizing of textbook illustration" with lively, graceful, and imaginative pictures that appealed to young readers. In addition to book illustration, Wright Enright was a magazine illustrator and cover artist, working mostly for women's magazines like McClure's and the Ladies' Home Journal. She also designed Christmas cards and did various and miscellaneous sorts of artwork. In the memoir Tales of Taliesin, Cornelia Brierley recalls Maginel, "full of fun and very sophisticated", spending summers with her daughter Elizabeth ("Bitsy") at her brother's establishment Taliesin, designing and making "yarn paintings" that she later sold in New York. In the 1940s, she distinguished herself as a shoe designer, creating high-fashion jeweled and sequined shoes, which were manufactured by Capezio. OTHER DETAILS ABOUT THIS ITEM: The United States School Garden Army (USSGA), was founded by the Bureau of Education in 1917 during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson's. Wilson described gardening as "just as real and patriotic an effort as the building of ships or the firing of cannon" and opined that "food will win the war". The USSGA was set up to encourage gardening among school children, in the hopes of preventing a potential food scarcity after World War I. Funding for the entity comes from the War Department. The Bureau of Education distributed manuals and guides (featuring data on soil health) across the nation to children ages 9–15 and their teachers. By Armistice Day, a large number of American children had answered the call to become "Soldiers of the Soil". War Gardens are now known as Victory Gardens. PLEASE SEE PHOTO FOR DETAILS AND CONDITION OF THIS NEW POSTER SIZE OF POSTER PRINT - 12 X 18 INCHES DATE OF ORIGINAL PRINT, POSTER OR ADVERT - 1917At PosterPrint Shop we look for rare & unusual ITEMS OF commercial graphics from throughout the world. We purchase them and add to our collection. We use our collection to photograph items for production of PosterPrints. The PosterPrints are printed on high quality 48 # acid free PREMIUM GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER (to insure high depth ink holding and wrinkle free product) Most of the PosterPrints have APPROX 1/4" border MARGINS for framing, to use in framing without matting. MOST POSTERPRINTS HAVE IMAGE SIZE OF 11.5 X 17.5. 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