22 Facts About Franklin Booth

Franklin Booth was an American artist known for his detailed pen-and-ink illustrations.

Franklin Booth had a unique illustration style based upon his early recreation of wood engraving illustrations with pen and ink.

Franklin Booth was one of the first modern ex libris designers in the United States.

Franklin Booth was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.

Jay Franklin Booth was born in 1874 and raised on a farm near Carmel, Indiana.

Franklin Booth studied pictures in books and magazines, including Scribner's and Harper's.

Franklin Booth was considered "the best pen-and-ink man in America" by an editor of a leading magazine.

Franklin Booth worked briefly at newspapers in Boston and Washington as an illustrator.

Franklin Booth created a gift bookplate for the Indiana State Library.

Franklin Booth's illustrations appeared in popular magazines, like Scribner's, Good Housekeeping, Collier's, Harper's Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post.

Franklin Booth illustrated James Oppenheim's short stories for American magazine by 1914.

Franklin 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.

Franklin Booth illustrated books like James Whitcomb Riley's The Flying Islands of the Night, which included multiple plates of his watercolor images.

Franklin Booth illustrated Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper ; Meredith Nicholson's The Poet, and Five-Foot Book Shelf, one of the Harvard Classics editions.

In 1947, the book 20 Franklin Booth Masterpieces was published.

Franklin Booth was a member of the Guild Freelance Artists and the Society of Illustrators.

Franklin Booth lived for a short time in the suburban city of New Rochelle, a well known artist colony.

Franklin Booth then settled in a studio on 57th Street in New York City.

Franklin Booth spent his summers in Indiana, where he was friends with James Whitcomb Riley, a poet.

Franklin Booth married Beatrice Wittmack, one of his models, in 1923 when he was 49 years of age.

In 1946, Franklin Booth suffered an incapacitating stroke and died on August 25,1948 in his studio in New York City.

Franklin Booth's ashes were scattered over his parents' gravestone in Carmel, Indiana.