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Franklin Booth
Franklin Booth
Born	Jay Franklin Booth; July 18, 1874; Carmel, Indiana
Died	August 25, 1948 (aged 74); New York, New York
Resting place	Old Carmel Cemetery, Carmel, Indiana; 39°59′10″N 86°07′34″W / 39.986°N 86.126°W
Nationality	American
Education	School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Art Students League of New York;
Known for	Illustrations
Awards	Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame ; 1983 ;

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Franklin Booth (July 18, 1874 – August 25, 1948) was an American artist known for his detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. He had a unique illustration style based upon his early recreation of wood engraving illustrations with pen and ink. His skill as a draftsman and style made him a popular magazine illustrator in the early 20th-century. He was one of the first modern ex libris designers in the United States.

Using watercolor, Booth created book illustrations, such as James Whitcomb Riley's The Flying Islands of the Night. During World War I, he created posters for recruitment, fundraising, and other efforts. As Art Deco style illustrations became popular, his work in latter years was found in commercial publications and catalogs. Although he "believe[d] in schools to a certain extent" at one point in his career, he co-founded the Phoenix Art Institute and was an educator for 21 years. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.

Early life and education

Jay Franklin Booth was born in 1874 and raised on a farm near Carmel, Indiana.^[1]^[2] His parents, Susan Wright and John Thomas Booth, had eight children. Booth, the third child,^[3] attended the Quaker Academy at Westfield.^[2]

As a boy, he was determined to become an artist. He studied pictures in books and magazines, including Scribner's and Harper's. His unusual technique was the result of his having scrupulously copied magazine illustrations which he thought were pen-and-ink drawings, but were, in fact, wood engravings. As a result, this led him to developing a style of drawing composed of thousands of lines, whose careful positioning next to one another produced variations in density and shade. The characteristics of his art were his scale extremes with large buildings and forests looming over tiny figures, decorative scrolls and borders, classic hand lettering and gnarled trees.^[4]

He expressed his view of formal education, "I believe in schools to a certain extent, yet I think a knowledge of art is not a thing held in trust by any, but is, rather, universal and comes to them who hunger and thirst after it."^[5] He took a correspondence course in art while he lived in Indiana,^[3] and studied for three months each at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York.^[3]^[5]

Career

His skilled draftsmanship and unique style made him a popular illustrator.^[6] He was considered "the best pen-and-ink man in America" by an editor of a leading magazine.^[5] Despite the laboriousness of his technique, Booth's compositions were characterised by a grand sense of space. As a result, his drawings were often well-matched to poetic or editorial entries.^[4]^[6] With the advent of the "clean, smooth, and continuous lines" of the Art Deco style illustrations, his works in latter years were found in commercial publications and catalogs.^[6]

Booth's first illustrations, created for his verses, appeared in the Indianapolis News,^[5] and he was on the staff there from 1899 to 1904.^[2] He then traveled to Rome, Paris and Spain.^[2]^[3] Beginning in 1904^[7] or 1905,^[2] he worked on the New York Daily News.^[7] He also worked briefly at newspapers in Boston and Washington as an illustrator.^[7] Creator of the Nicholson plate, engraved in copper, he was one of the first modern ex libris designers in the United States.^[5] He created a gift bookplate for the Indiana State Library.^[2]

Booth's illustrations appeared in popular magazines, like Scribner's,^[7]^[6] Good Housekeeping,^[8] Collier's, Harper's Magazine,^[9] and The Saturday Evening Post.^[7] He illustrated James Oppenheim's short stories for American magazine by 1914.^[9]

Booth created advertising art for organizations, such as Rolls-Royce, Whitman's Candy, Bulova Watches,^[6] General Electric, Procter & Gamble, Paramount Pictures,^[7] and Estey Organ.^[10] He also created illustrations for several Victor-Victrola record covers.^[7]

Booth contributed to World War I by illustrating recruitment posters, US savings bonds envelopes, booklets and death certificates for American soldiers who perished in France and Belgium, and work for the Red Cross.

He illustrated books like James Whitcomb Riley's The Flying Islands of the Night (1913), which included multiple plates of his watercolor images. "It includes Booth's open compositions and attention to classical forms, with skies filled with soft quiet washes of hues in place of fields of tone."^[6] The book, A Hoosier Holiday (1916), chronicled the two-week automobile trip that Booth took with Theodore Dreiser from New York to Terre Haute, Indiana, Riley's hometown. It included 30 or 32 charcoal sketches of cities, small towns, and rural settings that Booth made along their voyage in Booth's Pathfinder touring car. It was the first book about travel via automobile.^[1]^[7] He illustrated Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper (1917);^[11] Meredith Nicholson's The Poet,^[12] and Five-Foot Book Shelf, one of the Harvard Classics editions.^[13]

In 1925, he co-founded the Phoenix Art Institute and was an educator there for 21 years.^[7] An edition of his work, "Sixty Reproductions from Original Drawings", was published in 1925 by Robert Frank.^[14] In 1934 and 1935, he wrote a series of articles about the art of illustration for the Professional Art Quarterly.^[7]

Franklin Booth, *A Continent Is Bridged*, an illustration for the 25th anniversary of transcontinental telephone service.

Other contributions include illustrating the annual Telephone Almanac by 1940.^[15] "A Continent Is Bridged", an illustration by Franklin Booth, was drawn for the Atlantic Telephone & Telegraph Company for the observance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of transcontinental telephone service in 1940.^[16]

He created illustrations—like of a black-eyed susan and box turtle—for several stamps for a 1941 wildlife conservation series by the National Wildlife Federation.^[17] During his career, he helped develop a process of permanent reproduction of line design on titles and aluminum with the Reynolds Metals Company.^[13]

William H. Block Company sold a number of his drawings in 1946.^[2] In 1947, the book 20 Franklin Booth Masterpieces was published.^[7] He was a member of the Guild Freelance Artists and the Society of Illustrators.^[2]

Personal life

Booth lived for a short time in the suburban city of New Rochelle,^[3] a well known artist colony. Its residents including well-known artists like Norman Rockwell.^[18] He then settled in a studio on 57th Street in New York City. He spent his summers in Indiana, where he was friends with James Whitcomb Riley, a poet.^[3]

As an adult, he identified himself as a Socialist and a Christian Scientist.^[2] He married Beatrice Wittmack, one of his models, in 1923 when he was 49 years of age.^[7] In 1946, Booth suffered an incapacitating stroke^[7] and died on August 25, 1948^[13] in his studio in New York City.^[7] His wife survived him.^[13] There was no mention of children in his obituaries.^[2]^[13] His ashes were scattered over his parents' gravestone in Carmel, Indiana.^[3]

Legacy

In February 2001, the United States Postal Service released commemorative stamps of 20 "American Illustrators" with the header by Franklin Booth.^[19]

Books about him and his illustrations include Franklin Booth: American Illustrator (2006) by editor Manuel Auad^[20] and Franklin Booth: Painter with a Pen (2002) by John Fleskes.^[21]

Quotations

"I have always admired the beauty of Franklin Booth's work and regard him as an exponent of the very best in American Illustration". ~ Norman Rockwell.^[6]
"Booth's pen-and-inks have the lush richness of a fine old tapestry plus an exciting imagination". ~ James Montgomery Flagg.^[22]
"I have always stood spellbound before one of Booth's noble pen paintings. They recall today the Golden Age of American Illustration when such giants as Pyle, Abbey, Remington, and Gibson set a standard hard to reach. Booth earned his place beside such men as These". ~ Dean Cornwell.^[22]
"I still wish I could do a pen drawing the way Franklin Booth handled them. The present-day student who wants quick success should be forced to copy a few of his illustrations just for the discipline. I used to do them just for the love of it". ~ Milton Caniff.^[22]

References

^ ^a ^b Debra Haskett May (June 6, 2016). Legendary Locals of Carmel. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-1-4671-0216-2.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Franklin Booth, Hoosier 'Golden Age' Artist, Dies". Indianapolis Star. August 28, 1948. p. 9. Retrieved February 17, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Justin Glenn (October 6, 2016). The Washingtons. Volume 9: The Presidential Branch: Six Wright Lines. Savas Publishing. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-940669-34-2.
^ ^a ^b Walt Reed; Roger Reed; Society of Illustrators (1984). The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration. New York, New York: Published for the Society of Illustrators by Madison Square Press. p. 89.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e White, Griffin Esther (1910). Indiana Bookplates. Nicholson Press. p. PT78.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Jeff A. Menges (February 15, 2017). 101 Great Illustrators from the Golden Age, 1890-1925. Courier Dover Publications. pp. 28–29. ISBN 978-0-486-43081-2.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Michael Wentworth (2003). "Booth, (Jay) Franklin". A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 36–37. ISBN 978-0-313-31680-7.
^ Good Housekeeping. C.W. Bryan & Company. 1918. pp. 9, 31.
^ ^a ^b Charles Hanson Towne (1914). "The Work of Franklin Booth". The Graphic Arts. National Arts Publishing Company. pp. 243–248.
^ Printers' Ink. Decker Communications, Incorporated. 1922. p. 11.
^ Catalog of copyright entries: Books. Part, group 1. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1917. p. 986.
^ Geoffrey D. Smith (August 13, 1997). American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography. Cambridge University Press. p. 492. ISBN 978-0-521-43469-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Booth, Ex-Hoosier Artist, Succumbs in New York". The Terre Haute Tribune. Indiana. August 26, 1948. p. 8. Retrieved February 16, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
^ Franklin Booth (1925). Franklin Booth: Sixty Reproductions from Original Drawings, with an Appreciation by Ernest Elmo Calkins, and an introduction by Meredith Nicholson. New York: Robert Frank. LCCN 26005229.
^ Pacific Telephone Magazine. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. 1940. p. xx.
^ "A Quarter Century of Transcontinental Telephone Service". Bell Telephone Quarterly. XIX (1). American Telephone and Telegraph Company: 3. January 1, 1940. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. 1968. p. 298.
^ Barbara Davis. "New Rochelle - Arts City". New Rochelle Council of the Arts. Archived from the original on September 6, 2018. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
^ "Stamp Announcement: American Illustrators Commemorative Stamps". United States Post Office. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
^ Manuel Auad, ed. (2006). Franklin Booth: American Illustrator. Auad Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9669381-4-2.
^ John Fleskes; Franklin Booth (2007). Franklin Booth: Painter with a Pen. Flesk Publications. ISBN 978-0-9723758-0-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c 20 Franklin Booth Masterpieces, Frances Publishing. N.Y. 1947.

External links

[May_p._31-1] Debra Haskett May (June 6, 2016). Legendary Locals of Carmel. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-1-4671-0216-2.

[IS_obit-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Franklin Booth, Hoosier 'Golden Age' Artist, Dies". Indianapolis Star. August 28, 1948. p. 9. Retrieved February 17, 2017 – via newspapers.com.

[Glenn-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Justin Glenn (October 6, 2016). The Washingtons. Volume 9: The Presidential Branch: Six Wright Lines. Savas Publishing. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-940669-34-2.

[Reed-4] Walt Reed; Roger Reed; Society of Illustrators (1984). The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration. New York, New York: Published for the Society of Illustrators by Madison Square Press. p. 89.

[White-5] White, Griffin Esther (1910). Indiana Bookplates. Nicholson Press. p. PT78.

[Menges_p._28-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Jeff A. Menges (February 15, 2017). 101 Great Illustrators from the Golden Age, 1890-1925. Courier Dover Publications. pp. 28–29. ISBN 978-0-486-43081-2.

[Newlin-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Michael Wentworth (2003). "Booth, (Jay) Franklin". A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 36–37. ISBN 978-0-313-31680-7.

[8] Good Housekeeping. C.W. Bryan & Company. 1918. pp. 9, 31.

[Towne-9] Charles Hanson Towne (1914). "The Work of Franklin Booth". The Graphic Arts. National Arts Publishing Company. pp. 243–248.

[10] Printers' Ink. Decker Communications, Incorporated. 1922. p. 11.

[11] Catalog of copyright entries: Books. Part, group 1. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1917. p. 986.

[12] Geoffrey D. Smith (August 13, 1997). American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography. Cambridge University Press. p. 492. ISBN 978-0-521-43469-0.

[TH_obit-13] "Booth, Ex-Hoosier Artist, Succumbs in New York". The Terre Haute Tribune. Indiana. August 26, 1948. p. 8. Retrieved February 16, 2017 – via newspapers.com.

[Booth1925-14] Franklin Booth (1925). Franklin Booth: Sixty Reproductions from Original Drawings, with an Appreciation by Ernest Elmo Calkins, and an introduction by Meredith Nicholson. New York: Robert Frank. LCCN 26005229.

[15] Pacific Telephone Magazine. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. 1940. p. xx.

[16] "A Quarter Century of Transcontinental Telephone Service". Bell Telephone Quarterly. XIX (1). American Telephone and Telegraph Company: 3. January 1, 1940. Retrieved February 16, 2017.

[17] Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. 1968. p. 298.

[18] Barbara Davis. "New Rochelle - Arts City". New Rochelle Council of the Arts. Archived from the original on September 6, 2018. Retrieved February 16, 2017.

[19] "Stamp Announcement: American Illustrators Commemorative Stamps". United States Post Office. Retrieved February 17, 2017.

[20] Manuel Auad, ed. (2006). Franklin Booth: American Illustrator. Auad Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9669381-4-2.

[21] John Fleskes; Franklin Booth (2007). Franklin Booth: Painter with a Pen. Flesk Publications. ISBN 978-0-9723758-0-1.

[Masterpieces,_Frances_Publishing_1947-22] 20 Franklin Booth Masterpieces, Frances Publishing. N.Y. 1947.

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-'''Franklin Booth''',  (July 8, 1874 – August 28, 1948) was an American artist known for his detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. He created a unique illustration style based upon his recreation of wood engraving illustrations with pen and ink. His skill as a draftsman and style made him a popular magazine illustrator in the early 20th-century. Creator of the [[Meredith Nicholson|Nicholson]] plate, engraved in copper, he was one of the first modern ''[[bookplate|ex libris]]'' designers in the United States.
+'''Franklin Booth''' (July 18, 1874 – August 25, 1948) was an American artist known for his detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. He had a unique illustration style based upon his early recreation of wood engraving illustrations with pen and ink. His skill as a draftsman and style made him a popular magazine illustrator in the early 20th-century. He was one of the first modern ''[[bookplate|ex libris]]'' designers in the United States.
-Using watercolor, Booth created book illustrations, such as [[James Whitcomb Riley]]'s ''The Flying Islands of the Night''. During [[World War I]], he created posters for recruitment, fundraising, and other efforts. As  [[Art Deco]] style illustrations became popular, his work in latter years was found in commercial publications and catalogs. He was inducted into the [[Society of Illustrators]] Hall of Fame.
+Using watercolor, Booth created book illustrations, such as [[James Whitcomb Riley]]'s ''The Flying Islands of the Night''. During [[World War I]], he created posters for recruitment, fundraising, and other efforts. As [[Art Deco]] style illustrations became popular, his work in latter years was found in commercial publications and catalogs. Although he "believe[d] in schools to a certain extent" at one point in his career, he co-founded the [[Phoenix Art Institute]] and was an educator for 21 years. He was inducted into the [[Society of Illustrators]] Hall of Fame.
-==Personal life==
+==Early life and education==
-Jay Franklin Booth was born in 1874 and raised on a farm in [[Carmel, Indiana]].<ref name="Reed" /><ref name="May p. 31">{{cite book|author=Debra Haskett May|title=Legendary Locals of Carmel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2xEBDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA30|date=June 6, 2016|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4671-0216-2|page=30–31}}</ref> As a boy, he was determined to become an artist. He studied pictures in books and magazines, including ''Scribner's'' and ''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper's]]''. His unusual technique was the result of a misunderstanding: Booth scrupulously copied magazine illustrations which he thought were pen-and-ink drawings. In fact, they were [[wood engravings]]. As a result, this led him to developing a style of drawing composed of thousands of lines, whose careful positioning next to one another produced variations in density and shade. The characteristics of his art were his scale extremes with large buildings and forests looming over tiny figures, decorative scrolls and borders, classic hand lettering and gnarled trees.<ref name="Reed">{{cite book|author1=Walt Reed|author2=Roger Reed|author3=Society of Illustrators|title=The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration|year=1984|publisher=Published for the Society of Illustrators by Madison Square Press|location=New York, New York|page=89}}</ref>
+Jay Franklin Booth was born in 1874 and raised on a farm near [[Carmel, Indiana]].<ref name="May p. 31">{{cite book|author=Debra Haskett May|title=Legendary Locals of Carmel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2xEBDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA30|date=June 6, 2016|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4671-0216-2|pages=30–31}}</ref><ref name="IS obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/104921644/?terms=%22Franklin%2BBooth%22 |title=Franklin Booth, Hoosier 'Golden Age' Artist, Dies |date=August 28, 1948 |newspaper=Indianapolis Star |access-date=February 17, 2017|page=9 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> His parents, Susan Wright and John Thomas Booth, had eight children. Booth, the third child,<ref name="Glenn" /> attended the Quaker Academy at [[Westfield, Indiana|Westfield]].<ref name="IS obit" />
+[[File:Franklin Booth, illustration for McClure's Magazine by 1914.tif|thumb|upright|left|Franklin Booth, illustration for ''[[McClure's Magazine]]'' by 1914]]
-He expressed his view of formal education, "I believe in schools to a certain extent, yet I think a knowledge of art is not a thing held in trust by any, but is, rather, universal and comes to them who hunger and thirst after it." He studied briefly at the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]] and the [[Art Students League of New York]].<ref name="White">{{cite book|author=Esther Griffin White|title=Indiana Bookplates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6kQPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PT78|year=1910|publisher=Nicholson Press|page=PT78}}</ref>
+As a boy, he was determined to become an artist. He studied pictures in books and magazines, including ''[[Scribner's]]'' and ''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper's]]''. His unusual technique was the result of his having scrupulously copied magazine illustrations which he thought were pen-and-ink drawings, but were, in fact, [[wood engravings]]. As a result, this led him to developing a style of drawing composed of thousands of lines, whose careful positioning next to one another produced variations in density and shade. The characteristics of his art were his scale extremes with large buildings and forests looming over tiny figures, decorative scrolls and borders, classic hand lettering and gnarled trees.<ref name="Reed">{{cite book|author1=Walt Reed|author2=Roger Reed|author3=Society of Illustrators|title=The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration|year=1984|publisher=Published for the Society of Illustrators by Madison Square Press|location=New York, New York|page=89}}</ref>
+He expressed his view of formal education, "I believe in schools to a certain extent, yet I think a knowledge of art is not a thing held in trust by any, but is, rather, universal and comes to them who hunger and thirst after it."<ref name="White" /> He took a correspondence course in art while he lived in Indiana,<ref name="Glenn">{{cite book|author=Justin Glenn|title=The Washingtons. Volume 9: The Presidential Branch: Six Wright Lines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wcyHDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA55|date=October 6, 2016|publisher=Savas Publishing|isbn=978-1-940669-34-2|page=55}}</ref> and studied for three months each at the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]] and the [[Art Students League of New York]].<ref name="Glenn" /><ref name="White">{{cite book |author=White |first=Griffin Esther |author-link=Esther Griffin White |url=https://archive.org/details/indianabookplat00whitgoog |title=Indiana Bookplates |publisher=Nicholson Press |year=1910 |page=PT78}}</ref>
-Booth lived in the suburban city of [[New Rochelle, New York|New Rochelle]],{{citation needed|date=February 2017}} a well known [[art colony|artist colony]]. Its residents including well-known artists like [[Norman Rockwell]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newrochellearts.org/content.php?nID=2&cID=4 |title=New Rochelle - Arts City|website=New Rochelle Council of the Arts|author=Barbara Davis|accessdate=February 16, 2017 }}</ref>
 ==Career==
 [[File:Franklin Booth, Nicholson Bookplate, by 1910.tif|thumb|upright|Franklin Booth, Nicholson Bookplate, by 1910]]
-His skilled draftsmanship and unique style made him a popular illustrator.<ref name="Menges p. 28" /> He was considered "the best pen-and-ink man in America" by an editor of a leading magazine.<ref name="White" /> Despite the laboriousness of his technique, Booth's compositions were characterised by a grand sense of space. As a result, his drawings were often well-matched to poetic or editorial entries.<ref name="Reed" /><ref name="Menges p. 28" /> With the advent of the "clean, smooth, and continuous lines" of the [[Art Deco]] style illustrations, his work in latter years was found in commercial publications and catalogs.<ref name="Menges p. 28" />
+His skilled draftsmanship and unique style made him a popular illustrator.<ref name="Menges p. 28" /> He was considered "the best pen-and-ink man in America" by an editor of a leading magazine.<ref name="White" /> Despite the laboriousness of his technique, Booth's compositions were characterised by a grand sense of space. As a result, his drawings were often well-matched to poetic or editorial entries.<ref name="Reed" /><ref name="Menges p. 28" /> With the advent of the "clean, smooth, and continuous lines" of the [[Art Deco]] style illustrations, his works in latter years were found in commercial publications and catalogs.<ref name="Menges p. 28" />
-Booths first illustrations, created for his verses, appeared in the ''Indianapolis News''.<ref name="White" /> Creator of the [[Meredith Nicholson|Nicholson]] plate, engraved in copper, he was one of the first modern ''[[bookplate|ex libris]]'' designers in the United States.<ref name="White" /> He moved to New York at 25 years of age.<ref name="May p. 31" />
+Booth's first illustrations, created for his verses, appeared in the ''[[Indianapolis News]]'',<ref name="White" /> and he was on the staff there from 1899 to 1904.<ref name="IS obit" /> He then traveled to Rome, Paris and Spain.<ref name="IS obit" /><ref name="Glenn" /> Beginning in 1904<ref name="Newlin" /> or 1905,<ref name="IS obit" /> he worked on the ''New York Daily News''.<ref name="Newlin" /> He also worked briefly at newspapers in Boston and Washington as an illustrator.<ref name="Newlin" /> Creator of the [[Meredith Nicholson|Nicholson]] plate, engraved in copper, he was one of the first modern ''[[bookplate|ex libris]]'' designers in the United States.<ref name="White" /> He created a gift bookplate for the Indiana State Library.<ref name="IS obit" />
+[[File:Franklin Booth, illustration for Harper's Magazine, 1912.tif|thumb|left|upright|Franklin Booth, illustration for ''Harper's Magazine'', 1912]]
-Booth's illustrations appeared in ''Scribner's'',<ref name="Menges p. 28" /> ''[[Good Housekeeping]]'',<ref>{{cite book|title=Good Housekeeping|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-dA2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP31|year=1918|publisher=C.W. Bryan & Company|pages=9, 31}}</ref> ''[[The Century Magazine]]'', ''[[Everybody's Magazine]]'', ''[[McClure's]]'', ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'', ''[[Redbook]]'',  ''[[House & Garden (magazine)|House & Garden]]'' and ''[[Ladies' Home Journal]]''.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}} He created advertising art for [[Rolls-Royce]], [[Whitman's|Whitman's Candy]], [[Bulova|Bulova Watches]],<ref name="Menges p. 28" /> Estey Organ, GE, Overland, Paramount Pictures, Studebaker, and Wallace Silver.
+Booth's illustrations appeared in popular magazines, like ''Scribner's'',<ref name="Newlin" /><ref name="Menges p. 28" /> ''[[Good Housekeeping]]'',<ref>{{cite book|title=Good Housekeeping|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-dA2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP31|year=1918|publisher=C.W. Bryan & Company|pages=9, 31}}</ref> ''[[Collier's]]'', ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'',<ref name="Towne" /> and ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]''.<ref name="Newlin" /> He illustrated [[James Oppenheim]]'s short stories for ''American'' magazine by 1914.<ref name="Towne">{{cite book|author=Charles Hanson Towne|title=The Graphic Arts|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9WrpAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA243|year=1914|publisher=National Arts Publishing Company|pages=243–248|chapter=The Work of Franklin Booth}}</ref>
+Booth created advertising art for organizations, such as [[Rolls-Royce]], [[Whitman's|Whitman's Candy]], [[Bulova|Bulova Watches]],<ref name="Menges p. 28" /> [[General Electric]], [[Procter & Gamble]], [[Paramount Pictures]],<ref name="Newlin" /> and [[:commons:File:Franklin Booth - ad for Estey Organ, House & Garden, October 1922.jpg|Estey Organ]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Printers' Ink|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QWkJMNUynzsC&pg=RA11-PA35|year=1922|publisher=Decker Communications, Incorporated|page=11}}</ref> He also created illustrations for several [[Victor, Victrola|Victor-Victrola]] record covers.<ref name="Newlin">{{cite book|author=Michael Wentworth|chapter=Booth, (Jay) Franklin|title=A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qqsc3zwrDtIC&pg=PA37|year=2003|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31680-7|pages=36–37}}</ref>
+[[File:Franklin Booth, Liberty Bonds poster, World War I, 1914-1918.jpg|thumb|upright|Franklin Booth, Liberty Bonds poster, World War I, 1914-1918]]
 Booth contributed to [[World War I]] by illustrating recruitment posters, US savings bonds envelopes, booklets and death certificates for American soldiers who perished in France and Belgium, and work for the [[Red Cross]].
 [[File:Franklin Booth, Flying Islands illustration, 1913.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Franklin Booth, illustration for ''Flying Islands'' by [[James Whitcomb Riley]], 1913]]
-He illustrated books like [[James Whitcomb Riley]]'s ''The Flying Islands of the Night'' (1913), which included multiple plates of his watercolor images. "It includes Booth's open compositions and attention to classical forms, with skies filled with soft quiet washes of hues in place of fields of tone."<ref name="Menges p. 28" /> The book, ''A Hoosier Holiday'' (1916), chronicled the two-week automobile trip that Booth took with [[Theodore Dreiser]] from New York to [[Terre Haute, Indiana]], Riley's hometown. It included 30 illustrations that Booth made along their voyage.<ref name="May p. 31" /> He illustrated books by [[Mark Twain]],<ref name="May p. 31" /> [[Archibald Rutledge]], [[Meredith Nicholson]], Caroline D. Owen and other authors. Some of the notable books Booth contributed to are: ''The Prince and the Pauper'' (1917), ''The Poet'' (1914) and ''From Death to Life'' by A. Apukhtin (1917).
+He illustrated books like [[James Whitcomb Riley]]'s ''The Flying Islands of the Night'' (1913), which included multiple plates of his watercolor images. "It includes Booth's open compositions and attention to classical forms, with skies filled with soft quiet washes of hues in place of fields of tone."<ref name="Menges p. 28" /> The book, ''A Hoosier Holiday'' (1916), chronicled the two-week automobile trip that Booth took with [[Theodore Dreiser]] from New York to [[Terre Haute, Indiana]], Riley's hometown. It included 30 or 32 charcoal sketches of cities, small towns, and rural settings that Booth made along their voyage in Booth's Pathfinder touring car. It was the first book about travel via automobile.<ref name="May p. 31" /><ref name="Newlin" /> He illustrated [[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[:commons:File:Franklin Booth, The Prince and the Pauper book cover for Mark Twain's book.jpg|The Prince and the Pauper]]'' (1917);<ref>{{cite book|title=Catalog of copyright entries: Books. Part, group 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WB8DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA986|year=1917|publisher=Library of Congress, Copyright Office|page=986}}</ref> [[Meredith Nicholson]]'s ''The Poet'',<ref>{{cite book|author=Geoffrey D. Smith|title=American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography|url=https://archive.org/details/americanfiction10000smit|url-access=registration|date=August 13, 1997|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-43469-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/americanfiction10000smit/page/492 492]}}</ref> and ''Five-Foot Book Shelf'', one of the [[Harvard Classics]] editions.<ref name="TH obit" />
+In 1925, he co-founded the Phoenix Art Institute and was an educator there for 21 years.<ref name="Newlin" /> An edition of his work, "Sixty Reproductions from Original Drawings", was published in 1925 by Robert Frank.<ref name="Booth1925">{{cite book|author=Franklin Booth|title=Franklin Booth: Sixty Reproductions from Original Drawings, with an Appreciation by Ernest Elmo Calkins, and an introduction by Meredith Nicholson|location=New York|year=1925|publisher=Robert Frank|lccn=26005229}}</ref> In 1934 and 1935, he wrote a series of articles about the art of illustration for the ''Professional Art Quarterly''.<ref name="Newlin" />
-In 1925, a limited edition (210 copies) and regular edition of his work was published "Sixty Reproductions from Original Drawings" by Robert Frank. Other contributions include illustrating the annual ''Telephone Almanac'' from 1936 to 1944, and several years for the Victrola Record catalogue.
+[[Image:AContinentIsBridged.png|right|thumb|upright|Franklin Booth, ''A Continent Is Bridged'', an illustration for the 25th anniversary of transcontinental telephone service.]]
+Other contributions include illustrating the annual ''Telephone Almanac'' by 1940.<ref>{{cite book|title=Pacific Telephone Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKsQAAAAIAAJ|year=1940|publisher=Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company|page=xx}}</ref> "A Continent Is Bridged", an illustration by Franklin Booth, was drawn for the Atlantic Telephone & Telegraph Company for the observance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of transcontinental telephone service in 1940.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/belltelephonemag19amerrich#page/n15/mode/2up |title=A Quarter Century of Transcontinental Telephone Service|journal=Bell Telephone Quarterly|volume=XIX|number=1 |date= January 1, 1940 |access-date=February 16, 2017|publisher=American Telephone and Telegraph Company|page=3}}</ref>
+He created illustrations—like of a black-eyed susan and box turtle—for several stamps for a 1941 wildlife conservation series by the [[National Wildlife Federation]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UchAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA298|year=1968|page=298}}</ref> During his career, he helped develop a process of permanent reproduction of line design on titles and aluminum with the [[Reynolds Metals Company]].<ref name="TH obit" />
+William H. Block Company sold a number of his drawings in 1946.<ref name="IS obit" /> In 1947, the book ''20 Franklin Booth Masterpieces'' was published.<ref name="Newlin" /> He was a member of the Guild Freelance Artists and the Society of Illustrators.<ref name="IS obit" />
+==Personal life==
+Booth lived for a short time in the suburban city of [[New Rochelle, New York|New Rochelle]],<ref name="Glenn" /> a well known [[art colony|artist colony]]. Its residents including well-known artists like [[Norman Rockwell]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newrochellearts.org/content.php?nID=2&cID=4|title=New Rochelle - Arts City|website=New Rochelle Council of the Arts|author=Barbara Davis|access-date=February 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906184601/http://www.newrochellearts.org/content.php?nID=2&cID=4|archive-date=September 6, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> He then settled in a studio on 57th Street in New York City. He spent his summers in Indiana, where he was friends with [[James Whitcomb Riley]], a poet.<ref name="Glenn" />
+As an adult, he identified himself as a [[Socialism|Socialist]] and a [[Christian Science|Christian Scientist]].<ref name="IS obit" /> He married Beatrice Wittmack, one of his models, in 1923 when he was 49 years of age.<ref name="Newlin" /> In 1946, Booth suffered an incapacitating stroke<ref name="Newlin" /> and died on August 25, 1948<ref name="TH obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/90526281/?terms=%22Franklin%2BBooth%22 |title=Booth, Ex-Hoosier Artist, Succumbs in New York|date=August 26, 1948 |newspaper=The Terre Haute Tribune|location=Indiana |access-date=February 16, 2017|page=8 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> in his studio in New York City.<ref name="Newlin" /> His wife survived him.<ref name="TH obit" /> There was no mention of children in his obituaries.<ref name="IS obit" /><ref name="TH obit" /> His ashes were scattered over his parents' gravestone in Carmel, Indiana.<ref name="Glenn" />
 ==Legacy==
-In February 2001, the [[United States Post Office]] released commemorative stamps of 20 "American Illustrators" with the header by Franklin Booth.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2001/html/pb22041/Philately.html |title=Stamp Announcement: American Illustrators Commemorative Stamps |website=United States Post Office |accessdate=February 17, 2017}}</ref>
+In February 2001, the [[United States Postal Service]] released commemorative stamps of 20 "American Illustrators" with the header by Franklin Booth.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2001/html/pb22041/Philately.html |title=Stamp Announcement: American Illustrators Commemorative Stamps |website=United States Post Office |access-date=February 17, 2017}}</ref>
 Books about him and his illustrations include ''Franklin Booth: American Illustrator'' (2006) by editor Manuel Auad<ref>{{cite book|editor=Manuel Auad|title=Franklin Booth: American Illustrator|year=2006|publisher=Auad Publishing|isbn=978-0-9669381-4-2}}</ref> and ''Franklin Booth: Painter with a Pen'' (2002) by John Fleskes.<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Fleskes|author2=Franklin Booth|title=Franklin Booth: Painter with a Pen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zw9MAAAACAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Flesk Publications|isbn=978-0-9723758-0-1}}</ref>
 ==Quotations==
-*"I have always admired the beauty of Franklin Booth's work and regard him as an exponent of the very best in American Illustration". ~ [[Norman Rockwell]].<ref name="Menges p. 28">{{cite book|author=Jeff A. Menges|title=101 Great Illustrators from the Golden Age, 1890-1925|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPbODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA28|date=February 15, 2017|publisher=Courier Dover Publications|isbn=978-0-486-43081-2|pages=28–29}}</ref>
+* "I have always admired the beauty of Franklin Booth's work and regard him as an exponent of the very best in American Illustration". ~ [[Norman Rockwell]].<ref name="Menges p. 28">{{cite book|author=Jeff A. Menges|title=101 Great Illustrators from the Golden Age, 1890-1925|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPbODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA28|date=February 15, 2017|publisher=Courier Dover Publications|isbn=978-0-486-43081-2|pages=28–29}}</ref>
-*"Booth's pen-and-inks have the lush richness of a fine old tapestry plus an exciting imagination".  ~ [[James Montgomery Flagg]].<ref name="Masterpieces, Frances Publishing 1947">''20 Masterpieces'', Frances Publishing. N.Y. 1947.</ref>
+* "Booth's pen-and-inks have the lush richness of a fine old tapestry plus an exciting imagination". ~ [[James Montgomery Flagg]].<ref name="Masterpieces, Frances Publishing 1947">''20 Franklin Booth Masterpieces'', Frances Publishing. N.Y. 1947.</ref>
-*"I have always stood spellbound before one of Booth's noble pen paintings. They recall today the Golden Age of American Illustration when such giants as Pyle, Abbey, Remington, and Gibson set a standard hard to reach.  Booth earned his place beside such men as These".  ~ [[Dean Cornwell]].<ref name="Masterpieces, Frances Publishing 1947"/>
+* "I have always stood spellbound before one of Booth's noble pen paintings. They recall today the Golden Age of American Illustration when such giants as Pyle, Abbey, Remington, and Gibson set a standard hard to reach. Booth earned his place beside such men as These". ~ [[Dean Cornwell]].<ref name="Masterpieces, Frances Publishing 1947"/>
-*"I still wish I could do a pen drawing the way Franklin Booth handled them.  The present-day student who wants quick success should be forced to copy a few of his illustrations just for the discipline.  I used to do them just for the love of it". ~ [[Milton Caniff]].<ref name="Masterpieces, Frances Publishing 1947"/>
+* "I still wish I could do a pen drawing the way Franklin Booth handled them. The present-day student who wants quick success should be forced to copy a few of his illustrations just for the discipline. I used to do them just for the love of it". ~ [[Milton Caniff]].<ref name="Masterpieces, Frances Publishing 1947"/>
+[[File:Franklin Booth - ad for Estey Organ, House & Garden, August 1922.jpg|thumb|Franklin Booth - ad for Estey Organ, House & Garden, August 1922]]
-*"Franklin Booth always will be so much better than practically anyone who ever picked up a pen." ~ [[Bernie Wrightson]].<ref>''Master of the Macabre Bernie Wrightson. 2008-11-02.'' www.comiczoneradio.com</ref>
-* [[Roy Krenkel]] cited Booth as an influence and dedicated some of his paintings to him.
 ==References==
 {{reflist}}
+==Further reading==
+* {{cite book|author=Fuderer, Laura S.|chapter=Franklin Booth|title=Dictionary of Literary Biography|volume=188}}
+* {{cite journal|editor1=Smith, Steven E.|editor2=Catherine A. Hastedt|editor3=Donald H. Dyal|title=American Book and Magazine Illustrators to 1920|location=Detroit|journal=Gale Research|year=1998|pages=37–47}}
 == External links ==
+{{commons category|Franklin Booth}}
-*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160116005951/http://www.franklinboothbook.com/ Comprehensive Booth biography]
+* {{Find a grave|16691705|Franklin Booth}}
-*[http://www.bpib.com/booth.htm Booth biography]
-*[http://www.fleskpublications.com/galleries/booth/ Booth art]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160116005951/http://www.franklinboothbook.com/ Comprehensive Booth biography]
+* [http://www.bpib.com/booth.htm Booth biography]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120110010512/http://www.fleskpublications.com/galleries/booth/ Booth art]
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