From The AP Newswire [May 17th, 2006]
My heart goes out to Scott and all of the hard working men and women in the sun protection industry. They have lost a friend and partner:OCALA, Fla. (AP) - Joyce Ballantyne Brand, the artist who created the bare-bottomed Coppertone Girl of the famed suntan lotion ads, has died. She was 88. Brand suffered a heart attack two weeks ago, but had returned home under hospice care, said her daughter, Cheri Brand Irwin Tuesday. Brand died in her sleep on Monday. "She wanted to be in her own home," Irwin said Wednesday. "She was determined to make it to 88, and on April 4 she did. That was her goal." Irwin, 49, was 3 in 1959 when her mother painted her as the now infamous Coppertone Girl. The painting shows a mischievous black puppy pulling down a little blond girl's swim trunk bottoms. Brand was paid $2,500 for the painting.
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