Old Framed Print Miss Muffet's Birthday retailer Party by Maude Humphrey

An old print of Maude Humphrey's iconic illustration, "Miss Muffet's Birthday Party". This darling piece would be perfect for a nursery or child's playroom. In good vintage condition, the old frame shows some signs of wear but is in overall good shape. Please see all photos. Biography of the artist below.

Frame Dimensions:
9.25" x 18"

Maud Humphrey was an American commercial artist, illustrator and watercolorist. She was also a suffragette, and the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.

She was born in Rochester, New York on March 30, 1868. Her parents were John Perkins Humphrey and Frances V. Dewey Churchill. She married Belmont Deforest Bogart, and died in retailer 1940. She was buried in the Columbarium at Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Maud Humphrey, was a commercial illustrator, who received her art training in New York and France, including study with James McNeill Whistler, and who later became artistic director of the fashion magazine Delineator. She was a militant suffragette. She used a drawing of baby Humphrey in a well-known ad campaign for Mellins Baby Food. In her prime, she made over $50,000 a year, then a vast sum, far more than her husband who made $20,000 per year. The Bogarts lived in a fashionable Upper West Side apartment, and had an elegant cottage on a fifty-five acre estate in upstate New York on Canandaigua Lake.

Occupation: Magazine Illustrator and Artist

Legend says that Maud did the famous Gerber baby illustrations modeled on her son Humphrey