[Golden Eyes with Uncle Sam (dog)]

Illustration shows a young woman, "Golden Eyes," dressed in a khaki-colored dress and cap standing with a collie dog named Uncle Sam who holds a "Liberty bond" on his collar. A nude kewpie-like figure bangs a drum lower left. Their act of patriotism supported American soldiers during World War I.
Caption from Drawn to Purpose exhibit: WWI Heroine. As Golden Eyes bids farewell, presumably to her boyfriend, she also promotes Liberty Bonds to support the war effort. Bright-eyed but sad, she embodies patriotism on the home front. Among Nell Brinkley's beautiful young women in her serial comics, Golden Eyes stands out as enduring and heroic. Brinkley employs her fine-lined drawing technique, influenced by Art Nouveau, to render Golden Eyes' stylish attire. Decades later, cartoonist Dale Messick cited Brinkley's work as an inspiration.

Publisher on cover: The Seattle Sunday times, magazine section, Apr. 21, 1918.
Purchase; 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:060).
Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "American beauties: drawings from the golden age of illustration" in the Swann Gallery, Library of Congress, 2002.
Exhibited: "Drawn to Purpose" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., March - October 2018.