Franklin Booth

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Franklin Booth
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.[1]

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.[2] A book of his drawings was published in 1925.

[edit] Legacy

Roy Krenkel cited Booth as an influence and has dedicated some of his paintings to him.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Reed, Walt and Roger, The Illustrator in America 1880-1980, page 89. Madison Square Press, Inc., 1984.
  2. ^ Reed, 1984, p. 89.
The New House by Booth, originally an illustration for a poem in Good Housekeeping
The New House by Booth, originally an illustration for a poem in Good Housekeeping

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