2017年4月3日 · William Henry “Haskell” Coffin was best known for his high-profile cover illustrations for the prestigious Saturday Evening Post. Coffin was called upon to use his training as an illustrator of actress and showgirl profiles to render the French war heroine Joan of Arc.

Antique World War I Poster "Help Us Help Our Boys". In this World War I poster, a young woman in a YMCA uniform looks back towards the painter while hanging a poster on a wall. William Haskell Coffin (1878-1941), the artist, was a versatile illustrator who regularly created the covers for Redbook and The American.

2014年11月19日 · Commissioned by the United States Department of the Treasury, Haskell Coffin created this poster in 1918. Feeding off the popularization of Joan of Arc in American culture, Haskell uses the imagine of Joan of Arc to encourage women to buy War Savings Stamps in order to save their country, much as Joan of Arc saved France.

2019年6月5日 · The poster encouraged women to buy W.S.S. by suggesting that this would help to save the country and bring their husbands and sons home. The poster was commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department from William Haskell Coffin in 1918. Coffin was a popular American painter and commercial artist in the 1920s.

In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers emerged. The human losses of the First World War were largely mourned, honoured and remembered within historically-established traditions, supplemented by only a few new forms.

The coffin of the Unknown Warrior in state in the Abbey in 1920, before burial. The idea of a Tomb of the Unknown Warrior was first conceived in 1916 by the Reverend David Railton, who, while serving as an army chaplain on the Western Front, had seen a grave marked by a rough cross, which bore the pencil-written legend 'An Unknown British Soldier'.

Haskell Coffin was a prolific American artist known for lifelike portraits with little to no text. Likewise, in this poster for the American Red Cross, Coffin portrays a young, white, rosy-cheeked, nurse with piercing blue eyes and outstretched arms standing above the message “THIRD RED CROSS ROLL CALL.”

Becoming famous as a portrayer of American beauty, the Coffin girl could be found on note cards, sheet music, calendars, decorative boxes, fashion catalogs. His "Joan of Arc Saved France" WWI poster is well known.

2009年4月30日 · The coffin was draped with the Union Jack Flag. Several beautiful wreaths were placed on the coffin by the mother and sisters. Band, Firing Party, Buglers and Pallbearers were supplied by the Canadian Regt. stationed at Orpington. ...

Major General Clifford Coffin VC, CB, DSO & Bar was a temporary Brigadier General in the Corps of Royal Engineers, with 25th Infantry Brigade when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.