He settled in Brooklyn Heights and, to make a living, began doing magazine illustrations and advertising drawings-"a waste of precious years," according to him. His career was established by the time WWI began and various agencies of the US government commissioned him to paint propaganda posters. Daugherty "took fire from his vision," he said, and shortly after moved back to America. While in London (about 1908), studying under Frank Brangwyn, he disovered Walt Whitman when a fellow student let him borrow his copy of Leaves of Grass. and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before moving to London with his parents (his father was stationed there for the Department of Agriculture). He studied at the Corcoran School in Washington D.C.
Born in Asheville, NC, Daugherty was brought up listening to his grandfather's tales about the famous American frontiersman, while living a quiet country childhood in Indiana and Ohio.
American author James Daugherty (1889-1974) is known for his self-illustrated works about important figures from American history, particularly his biography of Daniel Boone.
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