My brother bought a hand painted picure entitled Butterfly Times and it is dated 1903. Wondering if this is a treasure? Muriel Humphrey Bogart was signed at the bottom corner of this picture.
2006-07-23 15:06:23 · 1 answers · asked by scarlet_frog7 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Bogart's mother was an artist but her first name was Maud.. she did the baby pictures on baby food jars back in the day, the baby is actually Humphrey. He was not the Gerber baby it was Mellin's baby food.
Bogart's mother, Maud Humphrey Bogart, enjoyed a successful career as a commercial illustrator. As described by her grandson Stephen Bogart:
"Her long career as an illustrator of calendars, greeting cards, fashion magazines, and more than 20 story books, and as a portrait painter of socialite children, flourished from the 1890s through the 1920s. She worked in the sentimental Victorian tradition, painting stylized cherubic children with round faces, chipmunk cheeks, curly blond ringlets, large eyes, button noses, rosy lips, frilly collars, and long white dresses. Her work promoted Prudential Insurance and Ivory soap, appeared on the covers of Harper's and Century magazines, and was exhibited in New York and Boston."
2006-07-23 15:13:10 · answer #1 · answered by Twigglet 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋