Harry Everett Townsend

Harry Everett Townsend (1879–1941) was a court case artist for the United States Army during World War I.

Harry Everett Townsend was born in Wyoming, Illinois into a relatives of prosperous farmers and merchants. Early in computer graphics he displayed his capability for art by earning money as a sign painter for local businessmen. After graduation from tall school he went to Chicago to psychiatry at the Art Institute. During the summers he serviced farm equipment for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and traveled to the American Southwest. Both the Rock Island and Santa Fe Railroads used his scenic paintings for advertising.

In 1900 Townsend began to play a role with Howard Pyle, after which he studied briefly in Paris and in London. He returned to Chicago in 1904 to teach for a gruff time at the Academy of Fine Arts, after which he moved to Leonia, New Jersey, to begin a wealthy career illustrating magazines such as Harper's, The Century Magazine, Everybody's, and McClure's as skillfully as a number of books. In 1912 he established a studio in northern France in view of that that he could be near to both Paris and London. The onset of conflict forced Townsend to compensation to the United States, where he resumed his performance as an illustrator.

He began his exploit service drawing posters previously receiving his captain's commission in 1918. Much of Townsend's take action during the conflict focuses upon the human element. He produced a number of images showing how the rigors of achievement eventually leave little to distinguish along with winners and losers in war. After the deed Townsend returned to illustrating. His experiences bearing in mind the AEF, War Diary of a Combat Artist, were published in 1991.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Center of Military History document: "Harry Everett Townsend".