Dorothy Hope Smith

[citation needed] Smith studied illustration at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she met Perry Barlow.

[4] Dorothy's unfinished submission was intended more as an inquiry as to what the age of the baby should be and what the ad size would be.

[3] The Gerber Company judges, however, preferred the simplicity of the illustration when compared to other more elaborate entries.

[citation needed] Smith's husband, Perry Barlow, whom she married on February 22, 1922, was a cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, drawing 135 covers over the years in addition to many cartoons.

[2] After Dorothy's death in 1955, their son Peter continued the color treatments to Perry's work.