Grace Drayton (October 14, 1877 – January 31, 1936) was an illustrator who created popular period comics Dolly Dimples (1910) and The Pussycat Princess (1935). She created the "Campbell Soup Kids" advertising campaign and is probably best known for her popular Dolly Dingle paper dolls in the women's magazine Pictorial Review. She frequently collaborated with her sister, Margaret G. Hays, also a comic strip author and writer.
Christened Viola Grace Gebbie, in 1900 she married Theodore
Wiederseim and started signing her work "Grace Wiederseim." In 1911,
Grace divorced Wiederseim and married W. Drayton, and started signing
her work Grace Drayton. She divorced Drayton in 1923 but continued to
sign her work "Grace Drayton" or "G G Drayton."
She was an early member of Philadelphia's The Plastic Club.
Some of Draytons' work is in the public domain and some of it is not. Be careful to scrutinize the publishing dates when looking at her work.
Read more about Grace Drayton:
Read more about Grace Drayton:
- I've created some coloring pages of Grace Drayton's Children at the Crayon Palace for little ones.
- Grace illustrated "Molly and The Unwiseman Abroad"
- Ask the Archivist: Grace G. Drayton
- PDF from The Historical Society of Pennsylvania "The Plastic Club Records: 1888-2007"
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| Grace Drayton was married and divorced twice. Her second husband's name was Drayton, her first husband's name was Wiederseim. After her second divorce she retained the name of Drayton. |
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