Franklin Booth
Franklin Booth, born 1874 and raised in Indiana, was an artist who worked mainly with ink and a pen. His works are composed of thousands of lines, whose careful positioning next to one another determine the density and shade of that particular region. His unusual technique was the result of a misunderstanding: As a boy, Booth scrupulously copied magazine illustrations which he thought were pen and ink drawings. In fact, they were wood engravings.
Booth was primarily a commercial artist and his works have been used in Harpers, The Century Magazine, Everybody's Magazine, McClure's, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, House & Garden, Ladies Home Journal and others.
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.
Among his works were a set of illustrations done
for ads for the Estey pipe organ.
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Country Life, January 1924 |
Country Life, July 1924 |
Country Life , March 1924 |
Country Life, May 1922 |
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Country Life, May 1924 |
Country Life, November 1923 |
House & Garden, August 1922 |
House & Garden, December 1922 |
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House & Garden, July 1923 |
House & Garden, October 1922 |
House & Garden, September 1923 |
House & Garden, September 1924 |
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House Beautiful, May 1932 |
Vanity Fair, February 1923 |
