"ARISE AMERICANS" Your Country and your Liberty are in grave Danger: Protect them now by joining the United States Navy or US Naval Reserve

Second World War American poster featuring a sailor on board a ship and words warning that the country's liberty is in danger. McClelland Barclay (1891–1943) was an American painter of pin-up art. Born in St. Louis, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then later at the Art Students League in New York City. By the age of 21, Barclay's work had been published in 'The Saturday Evening Post', 'Ladies' Home Journal', and 'Cosmopolitan'. During the First World War he was awarded a prize by the Committee on National Preparedness in 1917 for his poster "Fill the Breach." The following year he designed naval camouflage under the direction of William Mackay, Chief of the New York District Emergency Fleet Corporation. In June 1938, he was appointed Assistant Naval Constructor with the US Naval Reserve and subsequently appointed a Lt. Commander, Barclay worked on camouflage assignments until July 18, 1943 when he was reported missing after the U.S.S. LST 342 he was aboard was torpedoed in the Solomon Islands.