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1886 Edgewater, Colorado - 1944 New Rochelle, New York. Known for: Figure and genre cartooning and illustration.
Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across... Read full biography
Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left... Read full biography
Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing... Read full biography
Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote... Read full biography
Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley dre... Read full biography
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Keywords (17)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Female Face and Figure
- •Feminist Themes, Women's Equality, Feminism
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Female Figure and/or Portrait Specialty
- •Hearst Publications Artist
- •Newspaper Staff, Events, Artist, Cartoon, Illustration, Photography, Graphics
- •Self Taught, Autodidact