This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  F. Earl Christy was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1882. The "F" is believed to stand for "Frederic". At 17, he painted originals for the Boardwalk Atlantic City Picture company, with many of his early works published by the J. Hoover and Sons Calendar Company of Philadelphia. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts from 1905-1907.
Christy produced dozens of magazine covers including; Dell Publishing Company for Modern Romances, Modern Screen and Radio Stars, Ainslee's magazine, American Magazine, Sunday Magazine of the New York Times, Collier's, Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, Liberty Magazine, McClure's Photoplay Magazine, and Puck Magazine. He also created illustrations for many calendar prints, ink blotters, postcards and Princess Pat Cosmetic's advertisements. Most of his images were of beautiful girls primarily playing sports such as basketball, golf and tennis. Earl Christy never married and lived most of his life with one or both of his sisters. He passed away on Long Island New York in 1961.
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|  An illustration by F. Earl Christy, titled At the Seashore, was published on a section cover of the New York Tribune on June 15, 1919. The caption states that the artist “who is one of the most accomplished ‘pretty girl’ illustrators, has just concluded seventeen months service in France, first with the ambulance and later in charge of artillery camouflage with the 27th Division at Chateau Thierry and the 77th in the Argonne."
Submitted by Roy R. Behrens
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