Humphrey was born in
Rochester, New York in 1868 to John Perkins Humphrey and Frances V. Dewey Churchill. She studied at the
Art Students League of New York and in
Paris at the
Julian Academy. She married Belmont DeForest Bogart (1867–1934); they had one son, Humphrey, and two daughters. She won a
Louis Prang and Company competition for Christmas card design and then began working for the New York publisher
Frederick A. Stokes as an illustrator. She earned more than $50,000 a year (roughly $750,000 in 2023 dollars), while her husband's surgical practice brought in $20,000 a year (roughly $300,000 in 2023 dollars). E. Richards McKinstry of the
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library has addressed rumors that Maud Humphrey used her son as the model for the
Gerber Products logo illustration by observing that this illustration was not created until Humphrey Bogart was an adult — and that Maud Humphrey was not the illustrator who created it. Maud Humphrey died in 1940 at age 72 and was interred in the Columbarium of Protection in the Gardenia Terrace section of the Great Mausoleum at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale). ==References==