Walter Beach Humphrey

Who was Walter Beach Humphrey?

Walter Beach Humphrey was an American artist and illustrator.

Humphrey was born in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. He attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1914, and also studied at the Art Students League.

His work was featured on covers of magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post. He also did book illustrations and portraits. He painted murals on the walls of the rathskeller of Dartmouth's Thayer Hall illustrating a song about college founder Eleazer Wheelock.

For many years he was a resident of New Rochelle, New York, where he taught commercial art at New Rochelle High School for 22 years and served on a city arts commission. He also taught at the University of Chicago, Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, and the School of Commerce of New York University.

He died at the hospital in Glens Falls, New York, in October 1966, at the age of 73.