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Joyce Ballantyne Brand enjoyed a long career painting everything from 1940s pinup girls to fine oils, but the image that would make her a legend was for a small suntan lotion company.
It was 1959, and Grant Advertising hired Brand to whip up something for its new client, Douglas Laboratories, which had national ambitions for a product called Coppertone. Its formula was originally developed by a WWII pilot named Benjamin Green (a pharmacist in civilian life), who sought a way to protect American GIs in the Pacific from getting sunburn.
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