Archibald Gunn
Archibald, better known as Archie, began studying art in London with his father who was a painter and member of the Royal Academy. Gunn started his career as a portrait painter and costume designer but he would do much work in graphics from etchings to advertising especially in the form of theatrical posters. In 1889 he moved to New York City primarily providing illustrations for newspapers and magazines such as Truth and World. He would go on to place his images on everything from calendars to chocolate boxes. Gunn also designed a good number of postcards that mostly depicted women, but these took on military themes during the First World War. While he continued to work out of his studio in Garden City, Long Island in the postwar years, his style never changed much, as he avoided modernist trends that he disdained. - Metropostcard