 During the 1950s, he illustrated for men's adventure magazines, including "Argosy", "Sports Afield" and "True".Retiring from freelance magazine illustration, he created portraits, landscapes and Western scenes for fine art galleries.. With the decline of pulps and reader's magazines in the late 1950s and early 1960s, due to the rise of the TV as evening entertainment, Baumhofer's illustrations lost its markets.Very few illustration work is known for the 1960s and 1970s.