Day Lowry - First Day Cover Artist - Anyone With Info?

I suppose this is a bit off-topic (or maybe not), but I'm aware that Day Lowry (I do have his first name written down somewhere) worked on FDC's for years and also some work for the Red Cross (posters) and such. But, it has been hard to find much other information on him. I think I heard that there was/is a museum on the East Coast - North Carolina or some such place, but haven't found it, yet.

The reason I ask is that I have a painting (watercolor), of a Navy ship at sea that is signed Day Lowry '34, that I would like to find info about such as when where and so on.

If anyone can help with an information source, it would be appreciated. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.

I don't have much information but do know that Day Lowry a/k/a H. Day Lowry or Henry Day Lowry, was affiliated with the Everett Waddey Company (lithographers) of Richmond, VA.

His first day cover artwork is defined in "Aristocrat" cachets, an example of which is shown below:



As in this example, some of his artwork was transformed into poster stamps which were quite popular back in his day:

wt1 - Thank you for the response. Yes, it seems that many of his covers/work included a train, car, ship or airplane. I've seen a couple of the posters he did for the Red Cross and it seems most of the covers he did were 'Aristocrat'. It also seems that he was particularly busy during the war years. I had this painting for 20 years or so and every 4-5 years I get the urge to look it up again. And, still, I've never found another actual, plain 'painting' of his referenced.

An article from First Days in 1963 has this brief bit of background on Lowry:



Google turned this up (so perhaps you've seen it):

http://www.askart.com/AskART/artist...type=SUMMARY

but there is even less biographical info there than I found in First Days. There are images of other paintings you can see at that link, though. He illustrated a special supplement of the American Legion Weekly in 1926 which you can access here (PDF):

http://archive.legion.org/bitstream...&isAllowed=y

My guess is that he is perceived more as an "illustrator" than an "artist," which may explain why there isn't more known about him. Apparently his work is not collected as "art."

blcjr - Thank you, very much, for the information. At least I could see the sail boat on AskArt. I've never really thought much of subscribing to AskArt because they have very little information on my main 'art' collecting theme (19th-early 20th C. Japanese watercolors) so I never bothered to check there. I may have to break down and subscribe.

When the other 'puter is free, I'll check out the PDF, but I've d/l it for reference. Thank you, once again.