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Are you a girl with a Star-Spangled heart?
Crandell, Bradshaw, born 1896 - died 1966 - Enlarge image
Are you a girl with a Star-Spangled heart?
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
USA, USA (made)
- Date:
1943 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Crandell, Bradshaw, born 1896 - died 1966 (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Colour lithograph
- Credit Line:
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
- Museum number:
E.56-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3G, shelf DR2
Bradshaw Crandell was well known for his cover-girl illustrations for 'Cosmopolitan' magazine. Here he lends the same glamorous appeal to the Women's Army Corps. Posters such as this sought to reassure society that women would not lose their femininity by putting on a uniform. They maintained a stylistic continuity with familiar commercial images of women. This reinforced the government's stance that wartime occupations were temporary and would not fundamentally change women's traditional roles.
