James Daugherty

James Henry Daugherty (June 1, 1889 in Asheville, North Carolina – February 21, 1974, in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American modernist painter, muralist, children's photograph album author and illustrator.

He lived in Indiana, Ohio, and at the age of 9 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he studied at the Corcoran School of Art.
Later, he went to London and studied under Frank Brangwyn. During World War I, he was commissioned to fabricate propaganda posters for various US Government agencies, including the United States Shipping Board.

Daugherty wrote and illustrated several children's books during his career, and his book Daniel Boone won the Newbery Medal. His book following Benjamin Elkin, Gillespie and the Guards, won the Caldecott Honor in 1957. He was next the author of Walt Whitman's America Selections and Drawings by James Daugherty.

Four huge murals by James Daugherty, entitled "The Spirit of Pageantry — Africa", "The Spirit of Drama — Europe", "The Spirit of Cinema — America", and "The Spirit of Fantasy — Asia" are located in the State Theatre which is allowance of the beautiful Playhouse Square theater district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.[citation needed]

In September 2006, controversy erupted at Hamilton Avenue School, an elementary college in Greenwich, Connecticut, over Daugherty's depiction of the Bunker Hill hero and Connecticut original Israel Putnam in a mural commissioned by Public Works of Art Project for the town hall, and installed in the theoretical in 1935. The mural was restored, and revealed a scene, filled similar to violent and plentifully colored imagery, including snarling animals, tomahawk-wielding American Indians and a half-naked General Putnam strapped to a in flames stake. School officials objected to the violent imagery and ordered the mural removed to the Greenwich Public Library.

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