Frances Tipton Hunter

Frances Tipton Hunter (September 1, 1896 – March 3, 1957) was an illustrator who created covers for The Saturday Evening Post and many other magazines between the 1920s and 1950s. Her work is very similar in style to that of Norman Rockwell.

Biography Hunter was born in Howard, Pennsylvania, to Mitchell Matthew Hunter, an insurance salesman, and Laura Tipton. After her mother's death, Hunter and her older brother, Harold, moved in with her aunt and uncle Frances and Edward McEntire in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, when she was 5 or 6 years old.

Her love of drawing and art began when she was three years old; whenever she visited her grandmother, Hunter drew figures on the wallpaper in the stairway, apparently finding the wallpaper boring and unimpressive. She painted her first artwork in the 6th grade at Transeau Elementary School. Titled "We Bark for Transeau," the piece depicted three puppies in a basket. Puppies would become her favorite subject. While attending Williamsport High School, Hunter illustrated for the school's Cherry and White publication and played "unimpressive basketball," according to herself. In the early 1920s, Hunter created a series of paper dolls that first appeared in Ladies' Home Journal. After rave reviews and requests, she illustrated six dolls to appear in the regular publications. From the 1930s to the 1940s, Hunter contributed 18 covers to the Saturday Evening Post.

In 1946, Hunter was approached by John Baurngarth to do a series of paintings depicting the everyday problems of a little boy and his dog. The series, "Sandy in Trouble," continued for 11 years, as Hunter created an annual painting to add to the series. Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin published The Picture Book, which featured Hunter's illustrations and verses/stories by Marjorie Barrows.

List of publications with Hunter's illustrations Woman's Home Companion Redbook Good Housekeeping Cosmopolitan Saturday Evening Post Ladies' Home Journal Pictorial Review Delineator Collier's Magazine National Weekly

List of companies Hunter illustrated for Asher's Knit Goods Lambert Pharmacal (Listerine) National Carbon Company (Eveready Products) Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Westinghouse Lamp Company Oppenheimer Casing Company

List of illustration titles

"Queen of May" "Little Arthur" "Beating the Heat" "No Money for Soda/Girl and Boy at Soda Fountain", Saturday Evening Post cover, June 6, 1936, issue. "Girl and Boy on School Steps" "Kids Riding Trolley" Sketch by Hunter to accompany Ogden Nash's poem, "Remembrance of Things to Come"