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James Bonar

James Bonar (1864 - 1942) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  James Bonar is known for Industrial scene painting, writing, engineering.

James Bonar was born in Dumferline, Scotland in 1864. In 1885 he moved to Pittsburgh and worked for a time as a mechanical engineer for the Carnegie Steel Company. There he came to know Andrew Carnegie as a friend and associate, and like that well-known philanthropist,

Bonar became an active supporter of the arts in Pittsburgh. With his associate John L. Porter he was a founder of the One Hundred Friends of Pittsburgh Art, and for nine of the years between 1911 and 1921 he served as president of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh.

When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, Bonar designed a patriotic recruitment poster named The Incentive. It was selected by artist Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the "Gibson Girl," on behalf of the U. S. Government's division of pictorial publicity. As described in the Pittsburgh Sun, the poster drew on Pittsburgh's industry, and depicted processions of soldiers and workmen moving toward a brilliant yellow   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3441 characters.]  Artist bio

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