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Rose Cecil (Cecilia) O'Neill

Rose Cecil (Cecilia) O'Neill (1874 - 1944) was active/lived in New York, Missouri.  Rose ONeill is known for Illustration art, Kewpie imagery, fine art painting.

O’Neill, Rose Cecil
1874 Wilkes-Barre, PA-1944, Springfield MO

Also known as
Rose Cecil O’Neill
O’Neill Latham
Rose O’Neill Latham
C.R.O.

After childhood and teen years in Nebraska, Rose O’Neill settled in New York City from where for several decades, she was the best-known, highest-paid female illustrator of her era.  In 1999, when she was inducted into the Society of Illustrators’ Hall of Fame, it was written: "Without exaggeration, New Yorker writer Alexander King described Rose O'Neill's Kewpie as a 'dimpled bonanza.' The winsome elf had made its creator the highest paid female illustrator of her day with earnings of $1.4 million in 1914 dollars."  (Bossert)

By 1909, O’Neill illustrations were in the country’s most widely-circulated periodicals such as Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Collier’s. However, her signature artworks were Kewpie images, which she introduced as   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 17762 characters.]  Artist bio

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