He also studied at the Art Students League of New York with teachers including Dean Cornwell, Robert Henri and Harvey Dunn.

At the Tribune he worked alongside Clare Briggs, Dean Cornwell and Garrett Price.

Morris asked for his son's advice when buying works by Dean Cornwell (1892-1960) and had once sat for James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960).

The art style for the game was inspired by J. C. Leyendecker, as well as Dean Cornwell and Norman Rockwell.

He would later find artistic influence in such commercial magazine artists as Meade Schaeffer, Dean Cornwell, and especially Floyd MacMillan Davis.

Dean Cornwell (March 5, 1892 - December 4, 1960) was an American illustrator and muralist.

Graduating from high school in 1922, Baumhofer went on a scholarship to Pratt Institute, where he studied under Dean Cornwell and H. Winfield Scott.

Dean Cornwell called him "the first artist I ever copied".

During this time, he was also a member of a group called the Mural Block Painters along with Jean Abel, Jackson Pollock, Dean Cornwell and Radich.

Magazine illustrators included Francis Attwood, Dean Cornwell, James Montgomery Flagg, and Harrison Fisher.