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James Scripps Booth
James Scripps Booth (May 31, 1888 – September 13, 1954) was an artist and automotive engineer.
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The eldest of George Gough Booth and Ellen Booth's five children, James was born on May 31, 1888, in Detroit, Michigan.
James Scripps Booth was a Detroit-area artist and automotive engineer.
He received his education at private schools, he left school before graduating from the tenth grade. By this time, his artistic gifts were well recognized.
At 22, Booth married Jean Alice McLaughlin in 1910 in Detroit. The young couple traveled abroad and lived for a period in Paris, where Booth studied at the École des Beaux-Arts.
They also spent time in Etaples, France with Michigan-born artist Myron Barlow, who taught Booth the fundamentals of working with pastels.
Born in Detroit, MI on May. 31, Booth studied art in Europe and spent most of his career in Detroit where he was a car designer.Booth quickly took to the medium and thereafter preferred it to all others.
He accepted and completed two important commissions in 1917. One commission, from the directors of the Evening News Association, called for him to render a series of pastel drawings of the