Gayle Porter Hoskins

Hoskins began his training at the Chicago Art Institute and later studied under Howard Pyle in Wilmington, Delaware.

Three years later his mother died and the family moved back east to Chicago.

He began working for Marshall Field and Company as a mural designer and published illustrations in Redbook in 1907.

He became a nationally known illustrator by 1918 publishing in Harper's Weekly, Good Housekeeping, Liberty, Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and other magazines.

[2] The couple moved into 1616 Rodney Street, a building of four combined art studios and apartments, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.