While working for Keiswetter Agency, Fox also produced freelance work for
Seventeen and
Better Homes and Gardens. Her works, including full illustrations and a regular column of drawings, appeared in ''
Woman's Day''. In 1951, she married D'Andrea in New York. That year, she also joined the Charles E. Cooper studio with a collection of illustrators, including D'Andrea,
Coby Whitmore, and
Jon Whitcomb. According to The New School, it was "one of the most influential studios for photography and commercial art" at the time. Fox, one of the most notable female illustrators of the mid-20th century, illustrated books, book covers, advertisements, and she continued to illustrate for magazines, such as
Good Housekeeping,
Redbook, ''
McCall's,
and Cosmopolitan''. Women illustrators were often hired to create illustrations of children, who were portrayed as innocent and wholesome, or as naughty, like Fox's dark, young Sherlock made in the 1960s. As magazines relied increasingly on photography to fill their pages, it became difficult to remain competitive as an illustrator into the 1960s, but Fox was one of the artists, like
Bernard Fuchs and
Austin Briggs, to create their own new and unique style. Fox taught for a home-school art program at the
Famous Artists School, along with other successful artists like
Norman Rockwell,
Al Capp and Bernard Fuchs. Students submitted their works to professional illustrators, cartoonists, and painters, who critiqued them and returned comments and drawings to the students. From 1965 to 1976, Fox taught at
Parsons School of Design. She often exhibited her works—made with oils, watercolors, or other media—with her husband at galleries and museums.
Murray Tinkelman, who was also an instructor at Parsons, said in a 1977
American Artist article that Fox was able to have a successful career as an illustrator when photography was a major form for illustration. Like Fox, Tinkelman studied under Reuban Tam and worked at Charles E. Cooper studio. He admired her use of abstract shapes, color, and symbolism and was determined as an illustrator to be "the second best Lorraine Fox". Fox was described as "an elegant, quiet woman, highly imaginative, gifted in design and a standout artist in a field overbearingly populated by men" by journalist Don Stewart. Fox died in 1976 of lung cancer. In 1979, three years after her death, she became the first female inductee of the
Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. The New School and Smithsonian American Art Museum / National Portrait Gallery Library maintain an artist file of documents related to her career. Her work was included in the "Here's Looking at You, Kid" exhibition from January 31 to March 31, 2012, at the Society of Illustrators' Museum. == Published works ==