Background
Daugherty, James Henry was born on June 1, 1889 in Ashville, North Carolina, United States. Son of Charles M. and Susan Peyton (Telfair) Daugherty.
Daugherty, James Henry was born on June 1, 1889 in Ashville, North Carolina, United States. Son of Charles M. and Susan Peyton (Telfair) Daugherty.
Preparatory education, Central High School, Washington, District of Columbia. Student Corcoran School Art, Washington, Pennsylvania, Academy Fine Arts, Philadelphia pupil Frank Brangwyn, London, England.
During World War I, he was commissioned to produce propaganda posters for various United States Government agencies, including the United States Shipping Board. He was also the author of Walt Whitman"s America Selections and Drawings by James Daugherty. In September 2006, controversy erupted at Hamilton Avenue School, an elementary school in Greenwich, Connecticut, over Daugherty"s depiction of Bunker Hill hero and Connecticut native Israel Putnam in a mural commissioned by Public Works of Art Project for the town hall, and installed in the school in 1935.
The mural was restored, and revealed a scene, filled with violent and richly-colored imagery, including snarling animals, tomahawk-wielding American Indians, and a half-naked General Putnam strapped to a burning stake.
School officials objected to the violent imagery, and ordered the mural removed to the Greenwich Public Library.
Member.
Married Sonia Medwedeff, 1913.