Spencer Douglass Crockwell (April 29, 1904, Columbus, Ohio – November 30, 1968, Glens Falls, New York[1]) was an American commercial artist and experimental filmmaker.
[2][3][4] He was most famous for his illustrations and advertisements for The Saturday Evening Post and for murals and posters for the Works Progress Administration.
[6] Crockwell's paintings have been featured in advertisements for Friskies dog food and in a poster for the American Relief for Holland.
Crockwell created recruiting and other posters for various branches of the United States government during World War II, and many illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post.
Over the course of his career, Crockwell drew over four hundred full-page images; more than three billion prints of his works have been made.