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Walter M. Baumhofer

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Walter M. Baumhofer

Born	Walter Martin Baumhofer November 1, 1904 Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died	September 23, 1987(1987-09-23) (aged 82) United States
Known for	Illustration, painting

Walter Martin Baumhofer (November 1, 1904 – September 23, 1987) was an American illustrator notable for his cover paintings seen on the pulp magazines of Street & Smith and other publishers.

Baumhofer's parents immigrated from Germany. His father Henry (Heinrich) came from Oldenburg, his mother Marie from Hanover. He was born and grew up in Brooklyn where his father had become a clerk at a local coffee company and then, in 1918, janitor at an apartment building, a situation which enabled the family to live rent free. Graduating from high school in 1922, Baumhofer went on a scholarship to Pratt Institute, where he studied under Dean Cornwell and H. Winfield Scott.^[1] On June 28, 1935, he married to the equally accomplished illustration artist Alureda Leach Baumhofer (b Aug. 20, 1903; d. 1992), nicknamed Rita or Pete. She received a Certificate in Costume and Commercial Illustration from Pratt Institute in 1925, where she met Walter. She was most active with art déco fashion and commercial illustrations in the 1920s and 1930s

Illustrations

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In 1925, he began drawing interior illustrations for Adventure magazine. Scott suggested he submit cover paintings to pulps, and the following year his first pulp cover appeared on Danger Trail. He moved on to do covers for Doc Savage, Pete Rice, Dime Mystery, Dime Detective and The Spider. Joining the American Artists agency in 1937, he sold to slick magazines, including The American Magazine, The American Weekly, Collier's, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, McCalls, Redbook and Woman's Day. In the 1950s he worked for men's adventure magazines, such as Argosy, Sports Afield and True.^[1]^[2]

Fine art

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In 1945, Baumhofer and his wife Alureda moved to Long Island. Retiring from freelance magazine illustration, he created portraits, landscapes and Western scenes for fine art galleries.^[1] With the decline of pulps and reader's magazines in the late 1950s and early 1960s, due to the rise of the TV as evening entertainment, Baumhofer's illustrations lost its markets. Very few illustration work is known for the 1960s and 1970s. At the end of his life in the 1980s, he was rediscovered as a celebrated master of pulp and illustration art.

Gallery

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American Legion Monthly Illustration (1921) oil on canvas, 24.25 inch. x 38.75 inch.

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c Saunders, David. Pulp Artists: Walter Baumhofer, 2009.
^ Jones, Robert Kenneth. The Shudder Pulps: A History of the Weird Menace Magazines of the 1930s. Wildside Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4344-8624-0 (p.22,46).

Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame

1958–1959

1958	Norman Rockwell
1959	Dean Cornwell Harold von Schmidt

1960–1969

1960	Fred Cooper
1961	Floyd Davis
1962	Edward A. Wilson
1963	Walter Biggs
1964	Arthur William Brown
1965	Al Parker
1966	Albert Dorne
1967	Robert Fawcett
1968	Peter Helck
1969	Austin Briggs

1970–1979

1970	Rube Goldberg
1971	Stevan Dohanos
1972	Ray Prohaska
1973	Jon Whitcomb
1974	Charles Dana Gibson Tom Lovell N. C. Wyeth
1975	Bernie Fuchs Maxfield Parrish Howard Pyle
1976	Harvey Dunn John Falter Winslow Homer
1977	J. C. Leyendecker Wallace Morgan Robert Peak
1978	Norman Price Frederic Remington Coby Whitmore
1979	Edwin Austin Abbey Lorraine Fox Ben Stahl

1980–1989

1980	Howard Chandler Christy James Montgomery Flagg Saul Tepper
1981	Stan Galli John Gannam Frederic R. Gruger
1982	John Clymer Carl Erickson Henry P. Raleigh
1983	Franklin Booth Mark English Noel Sickles
1984	John La Gatta Neysa McMein James Williamson
1985	Arthur Burdett Frost Charles Marion Russell Robert Weaver
1986	Al Hirschfeld Rockwell Kent
1987	Maurice Sendak Haddon Sundblom
1988	René Bouché Pruett Carter Robert T. McCall
1989	Erté John Held Jr. Arthur Ignatius Keller

1990–1999

1990	Robert Riggs Morton Roberts Burt Silverman
1991	Jessie Willcox Smith William Arthur Smith Donald Teague
1992	Joe Bowler Edwin A. Georgi Dorothy Hood
1993	Robert McGinnis Thomas Nast Coles Phillips
1994	Harry Anderson Elizabeth Shippen Green Ben Shahn
1995	James Avati McClelland Barclay Joseph Clement Coll Frank Schoonover
1996	Anton Otto Fischer Winsor McCay Violet Oakley Mead Schaeffer Herbert Tauss
1997	Chesley Bonestell Joe DeMers Diane Dillon Leo Dillon Maynard Dixon Harrison Fisher Frank McCarthy
1998	Boris Artzybasheff Robert M. Cunningham Kerr Eby Frank Frazetta Edward Penfield Martha Sawyers
1999	Mitchell Hooks Andrew Loomis Antonio Lopez Stanley Meltzoff Thomas Moran Rose O'Neill Adolph Treidler

2000–2009

2000	James Bama Nell Brinkley Charles Livingston Bull David Stone Martin Alice and Martin Provensen J. Allen St. John
2001	John James Audubon Will H. Bradley Howard Brodie F. O. C. Darley Charles R. Knight Franklin McMahon
2002	E. Simms Campbell Milton Glaser Jean-Leon Huens Daniel Schwartz
2003	Elaine Duillo David Levine Bill Mauldin Jack Potter
2004	John Berkey John Groth Robert Andrew Parker Saul Steinberg
2005	Jack Davis Brad Holland Herbert Paus Albert Beck Wenzell
2006	Gilbert Bundy Bradshaw Crandell Keith Ferris Harold Foster Frank H. Netter Alvin J. Pimsler Jack Unruh
2007	David Grove Gary Kelley Edward Windsor Kemble Russell Patterson George Stavrinos
2008	Benton Clark Matt Clark Kinuko Y. Craft Naiad Einsel Walter Einsel
2009	Mario Cooper Paul Davis Laurence Fellows Arnold Roth Herbert Morton Stoops

2010–2019

2010	Charles Edward Chambers Earl Oliver Hurst Orson Lowell Wilson McLean Chris Van Allsburg
2011	Kenneth Paul Block Alan E. Cober Robert Heindel Fred Otnes Jerry Pinkney
2012	Ludwig Bemelmans R. O. Blechman John Collier Edward Gorey John Sloan Nancy Stahl
2013	Ted CoConis George Herriman Sanford Kossin Arthur Rackham Charles M. Schulz Murray Tinkelman
2014	Mary Blair Walter Everett Al Jaffee Syd Mead William Cameron Menzies Alex Raymond Edward Sorel
2015	Bernard D'Andrea Walter M. Baumhofer Will Eisner Virgil Finlay Ted Lewin and Betsy Lewin Pat Oliphant Arthur Szyk
2016	Marshall Arisman Rolf Armstrong Guy Billout Peter de Sève William Glackens Beatrix Potter Richard M. Powers
2017	Mort Drucker Bart Forbes Anita Kunz Ralph Steadman Burne Hogarth George Petty Gustaf Tenggren
2018	Robert Crumb Kate Greenaway René Gruau Jack Kirby Heinrich Kley Hilary Knight James McMullan Kay Nielsen C. F. Payne
2019	Alice Barber Stephens Mary Petty Frank Godwin Mark Summers Vincent Di Fate Roz Chast

2020–2029

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2024	Steve Brodner Gustave Doré Robert Grossman Gregory Manchess Yuko Shimizu Virginia Frances Sterrett

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