Maud Humphrey(1868 Rochester, NY - 1940 Hollywood, CA) Before she became primarily known as Humphrey
Bogart's
mother,
Miss Humphrey was recognized as an illustrator of
children's books. As early as the 1890's, she
was illustrating
calendars,
greeting cards and fashion magazines, as well as painting portraits of
socialite children. Into the 1920's, her advertising designs
promoted
Prudential
Insurance and Ivory Soap, and her artwork graced the covers of Harper's and Century magazines. Several series of her illustrations of children were
published as postcards, beginning around 1908.For the record, the baby illustration used to advertise Gerber Baby Food was not drawn by Maud Humphrey and it is not an infant Humphrey Bogart (although her portrait of him was used on the label of a different brand, Mellins Baby Food). The actual Gerber Baby sketch was the work of Dorothy Hope Smith in 1927, capturing her neighbor, 4-month old Ann Cook, at her cutest. 
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