called him, greatly admired Frank’s artwork and immediately began sending work his way.
On December 18, 1946, Frank and Loretta had their second child, me (Kenneth Lloyd). Their third and last child, Patricia Susan, was born May 21, 1949.
One of the first accounts that Bill Gale gave to Frank was that of the Armstrong Cork Co. To illustrate how Armstrong products were used in everyday life, they had Frank paint factories or buildings with parts of their walls removed to show the operations inside. Between 1947 and 1951, he drew 29 of these. They appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and later were reprinted in some encyclopedias. They attracted much attention to Frank’s artistic ability, and greatly furthered his career.
Other clients that Frank did magazine ads for in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s included: Allegheny Ludlum Corporation, Avco Manufacturing, Caltex Petroleum, Ethel Corporation, General Electric, General Motors (ads for Chevrolet and Buick), Goodyear Aviation, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Merritt-Chapman & Scott (salvage company), Orangeburg Pipe , and Philadelphia Electric Co.,
These ads appeared in most of the major magazines of that time: Life, Colliers, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, Fortune, Time, Business Week, U.S. News and World Report, etc.
I remember as a boy going out through the backyard to visit daddy in his studio. He would let me sit quietly and watch him, and he would sometimes try to explain to me the types of paints and brushes he used. On a few occasions, he would sit me on his
lap, load the brush with paint, and let me paint a few small strokes on the job he was working on. Then when the picture appeared in a magazine a few months later, he would show it to me and say “Look what we did”.
I also remember an advertisement that dad painted for General Electric that my sister, Lynn, and I posed for. It appeared on giant billboards all over the country, including