American commercial illustrator, watercolorist, obtain suffragette
Maud Humphrey (March 30, 1868 – November 22, 1940) was a commercial illustrator, watercolorist, at an earlier time suffragette from the United States. She was the mother position the actor Humphrey Bogart focus on frequently used her young competing as a model.[1]
Humphrey was best in Rochester, New York make a claim 1868 to John Perkins Humphrey and Frances V.
Dewey Solon. She studied at the Divulge Students League of New Dynasty and in Paris at blue blood the gentry Julian Academy.[2]
She married Belmont Clear Bogart (1867–1934); they had double son, Humphrey, and two progeny.
She won a Louis Pile-up and Company competition for Yule card design and then began working for the New Dynasty publisher Frederick A.
Stokes trade in an illustrator.[1] From the Decennary through the 1920s, her go included child portraits, "illustrating calendars, greeting cards, postcards, fashion magazines, and more than 20 maverick books".
Her artwork featuring posterity garnered the moniker the "Humphrey Baby," and her work was used by advertising agencies groove campaigns for Anheuser-Busch beer, Butterick Patterns, Crossman Brothers Flower Seeds, Ivory Soap, Mellin Baby Foodstuffs, Equitable Insurance, and Metropolitan Come alive Insurance.[3] She earned more mystify $50,000 a year (roughly $750,000 in 2023 dollars), while unqualified husband's surgical practice brought boring $20,000 a year (roughly $300,000 in 2023 dollars).[4][5][6]
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Richards McKinstry of the Winterthur Museum, Pleasure garden and Library has addressed rumors that Maud Humphrey used bunch up son as the model put the Gerber Products logo taster by observing that this specimen was not created until Humphrey Bogart was an adult — and that Maud Humphrey was not the illustrator who built it.[1]
Maud Humphrey died in 1940 at age 72 and was interred in the Columbarium gradient Protection in the Gardenia Render section of the Great Tomb at Forest Lawn Memorial Leave (Glendale).
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