commonly simply fictional character created series world war paintings appeared covers issues rank private career tracked cover post induction discharge depicted battle girlfriend modeled acquaintances exclusively post covers series covers wartime work prime peak popularity post million subscribers believed real person wartime art including freedoms contributed success wartime bond sales efforts series included major tours toured cover art retrospective touring 1940s world war art exhibition background kennedy memorial cover december created magazine covers post popular american magazine half 20th century reached peak million illustrated american life world war world war cover illustrations illustrated post covers total world war war art involved american life half 1940s cover illustrations focused human war encouraged support war efforts world war covers endorsed war bonds encouraged women work encouraged men enlist service world war illustrations themes patriotism longing shifting gender roles reunion love work community family wartime promote war role magazine illustrator times war draws comparisons american_civil_war illustrator artistic expressions said helped adoption goal freedoms set forth united_states president painting series freedoms toured war bond effort raised million faced american character served main world war character widely referred typical created escalating americans enlisting drafted selective training armed forces credits wife derived old children book described ordinary little guy thrown chaos war public identified portrayal little guy living sense duty time war truly seen typical wartime art remains popular signed original depiction sold auction paintings painting treasury second war loan drive ran april character generations later literary artistic comparison series review care package subsequent covers depicted variety roles church uniform holding hat lap soldier duty son carrying family tradition military service life family photographs fighting mad girls holding pictures sent war zone matured course series final work created good ending series depicting studying college bill know things ended final cover showed young man stretched smoking pipe wearing penny studying fourth piece hometown news cemented place american history families identified sixth piece church earliest works significant religious themes final component series college critical review perceived represent transformation character owned loaned study contrast mood style wartime components series cover series pictured battle sort danger armed armed foes felt portrayals better exhibited photographs produced depiction cover painting convoy produced depicting combat gear covered military vehicle rifle hand donated painting high school graduating class hung principal office school loaned sketch painting sold concern painting hung secure location painting restored high school models bob served model eventually enlisted service united_states_navy job arlington hand year old met pose time stood feet inches tall time lock hair drop forehead seeking model met square dance arlington vermont observed different angles dance told stop staring knock flat military draft felt serving country patriotic duty enlisted naval aviator served south seas war enlisted worked memory photographs complete illustrations worked background photograph wall going series post editors objected character popular public enjoyed closely affairs popular point post receiving hundreds letter character perceived real concern private particularly high families named departed model portrayed girlfriend fellow post illustrator daughter remained available painted sleeping midnight new year eve photos background bed new year eve subsequent inches inches cover generations depicting military family pictures war books generated hundreds letters wanted buy imaginary books daughters lee showed affections post cover modern references woman posed illustrations girlfriend included minute series film painting america film coincided comprehensive touring exhibition entitled pictures american people seven city tour produced exhibition started november stopped gallery art san diego museum art concluding february official tour ended post covers display april june september exhibited massachusetts days fair saturday september attendance appeared freedoms travelling exhibition entitled 1940s view american piece exhibition organized stops places april july june august art museum october february september january works names known following saturday evening post cover paintings october food package package home november home sweet home home leave february april hometown news june july church september girls letters double trouble june cat cradle rope trick january new year eve september heritage generations october college
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