Franklin Booth (July 8, 1874 – August 25, 1948) was a brilliant American artist known for his detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. He had a unique illustration style based upon his early recreation of wood engraving illustrations with pen and ink. His skill as a draftsman and style made him a popular magazine illustrator in the early 20th-century, illustrating for scribner's, Harper's, McClures, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal and Colliers. He continued sketching and illustrating for books, magazines and several companies He was one of the first modern ex-libris designers in the United States. 

Booth’s style of pen-and-ink line drawing, initially developed during his childhood working on the family farm, distinctively evokes the linework of old woodcut engravings. With calculated placement and spacing of pen lines, Booth’s drawings encompass ranges of tonal value and density. Even in his late career, Booth’s imagination remained seemingly ingrained with the dreamlike scenery of rural Indiana, which he said captivated him with its “indescribable haze, its luminous silence, its spiritual suggestiveness.”

Booth cofounded the Phoenix Art Institute in New York and taught there between 1925 and 1946. IFranklin, noted for his exceptional line-drawing style and idealistic vision of art as “truth and beauty,” was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1983.