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Maud Humphrey
American commercial illustrator, watercolorist, and suffragette
Maud Humphrey (March 30, – November 22, ) was a commercial illustrator, watercolorist, and suffragette from the United States. She was the mother of the actor Humphrey Bogart and frequently used her young son as a model.[1]
Biography
Humphrey was born in Rochester, New York in to John Perkins Humphrey and Frances V.
Dewey Churchill. She studied at the Art Students League of New York and in Paris at the Julian Academy.[2]
She married Belmont DeForest Bogart (–); they had one son, Humphrey, and two daughters.
Maud humphrey bogart biography youtube What Happened to the Corbetts. Tierney, Gene with Mickey Herskowitz. Hesitant about making the move, she felt better when she found herself in the company of Laurence Olivier, F. Your cart is empty.She won a Louis Prang and Company competition for Christmas card design and then began working for the New York publisher Frederick A. Stokes as an illustrator.[1] From the s through the s, her work included child portraits, "illustrating calendars, greeting cards, postcards, fashion magazines, and more than 20 story books".
Her artwork featuring children garnered the moniker the "Humphrey Baby," and her work was used by advertising agencies in campaigns for Anheuser-Busch beer, Butterick Patterns, Crossman Brothers Flower Seeds, Ivory Soap, Mellin Baby Food, Equitable Insurance, and Metropolitan Life Insurance.[3] She earned more than $50, a year (roughly $, in dollars), while her husband's surgical practice brought in $20, a year (roughly $, in dollars).[4][5][6]
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Richards McKinstry of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library has addressed rumors that Maud Humphrey used her son as the model for the Gerber Products logo illustration by observing that this illustration was not created until Humphrey Bogart was an adult — and that Maud Humphrey was not the illustrator who created it.[1]
Maud Humphrey died in at age 72 and was interred in the Columbarium of Protection in the Gardenia Terrace section of the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale).
References
Further reading
- Choppa, Karen; Humphrey, Paul ().Maud humphrey prints Later career [ edit ]. It landed on Dr. Hatch shoe company. Bogart bought the Santana , a foot 17 m sailing yacht, from actor Dick Powell in
Maud Humphrey: Her permanent imprint on American illustration. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. ISBN&#;.
External links
Media related to Maud Humphrey at Wikimedia Commons