Rose Cecil (Cecilia) O'Neill ART FOR SALE

Portrait of Rose Cecil (Cecilia) O'Neill

1874 Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania - 1944 Springfield, Missouri. Known for: Illustration art, Kewpie imagery, fine art painting.

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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... Read full biography

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Baby's First Christmas

Type:Illustration

Year:1910

Size:24.00" x 19.50"

Medium:Mixed Media

Signed:Signed

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Created for Harper's magazine, December 1910 to accompany a story by Margaret G. Hayes. The illustration is reproduced within Walt Reed's The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 (Society of Illustrators, 2001) on page 154.

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