Dolores Erickson

Dolores Erickson (born September 1935) is an American model and artist. She came to prominence by appearing as a model on a number of album covers, most notably Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

Early life and modeling Erickson, the oldest of eight children, She started her modeling career at 14

The modeling led in early 1960 to Paramount Pictures signing her as a contract player. Initially, Alpert felt the cover image "was maybe pushing it a little too far ... I thought the censors would be down on it. But in 2006 it looks pretty darn tame."

Later years In the 1970s, Erickson returned to college, studying art in Portland, Oregon. She began painting, and owned the art gallery The Wild Deer, in Kelso, Washington, for a decade. As of the mid-2000s, she continued to paint what one newspaper called "Impressionist-style works in her duplex on Columbia Heights."

Personal life In the early 1960s Erickson was living in San Francisco. After signing a contract with Paramount Studios she moved to Los Angeles. Erickson later spent a year in Mexico modeling on contract for Lonka Becker before moving to New York, where she met and married businessman Bert Neirick, with whom she had a son, Brett. The couple divorced, and in the 1970s she married attorney Bob Huffhines Jr. They resided in Longview, Washington and were married for 42 years before divorcing.