The artist is McClellan Barclay.

In 1930, the General Motors selected McClelland Barclay’s ‘Fisher Body Girl’ for a series of advertisements, and she quickly became as popular as ‘The Gibson Girl’ and ‘The Christy Girl’. He used his wife, just 19 years old, as the model for the iconic Fisher Autobody image. She later appeared in magazine advertisements and was so well published with her languid body plastered across the country on billboards, that she was recognized wherever she went.

During the war he was appointed Lt. Commander in the Navy, and he worked on new ideas in ship camoflauging. In 1942 he was on a ship torpedoed by the Japanese, and was lost.