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Rose O'Neill (Illustrator) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

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*** ,1874
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April 6, 1944 (69 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
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Rose O'Neill
Rose Cecil O'Neill is an American animator, illustrator, artist and writer. She built a successful career as an illustrator for magazines and books, and at a young age she became America's highest paid and most popular commercial illustrator. O'Neill earned an international fortune and reputation by creating Kewpie, the most famous cartoon character until Mickey Mouse. The daughter of a book merchant and a housewife, O'Neill grew up in rural Nebraska. She showed an interest in art as a child and sought a career as an illustrator in New York City at the age of fifteen. Her cartoon Kewpie, which first appeared in the Ladies' Home Journal in 1909, was later produced as a cookie doll in 1912 by J. D. Kestner, a German toy company, is followed by materials of manufacture and versions of celluloid. Dolls were very popular at the turn of the 20th century and are considered to be one of the first toys commercially available in the United States.
BornRose Cecil O'Neill, June 25, 1874, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedApril 6, 1944, Springfield, Missouri, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist, writer, artist
Notable worksKewpie

About Rose O'Neill

Illustrator Rose O'Neill was born in Pennsylvania, United States on June 25, 1874. She dies at the age of 69, on April 6, 1944.

In the early 1900s, she created the iconic Kewpies comic strip, which inspired America's highly successful Kewpie doll line and earned O'Neill the world's wealthiest female illustrator. In addition to her work as an artist, she published fiction and poetry and was involved in the early twentieth-century women's suffrage movement.

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Rose O'Neill before becoming famous

Rose O'Neill was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1874 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Dog (狗).

Before the age of fifteen, she began working as an illustrator for the magazines The Great Divide and The Excelsior. Soon after, she began working as a cartoonist for True magazine in New York City.

Achievement of Rose O'Neill

In 1914, she merged her Kewpie cartoons with poster art from the women's suffrage movement to produce an illustration featuring a marching Kewpie holding a sign that read"Votes for Women".

Rose O'Neill's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

As one of seven children born to William and Alice O'Neill, she grew up in Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New York, and Missouri. After her divorce from Gray Latham, she married and divorced novelist Harry Leon Wilson.

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She and her contemporary and fellow artist, Painter Violet Oakley, were two of the first notable female illustrators, exemplifying the late 19th and early 20th century"New Woman" ideal.

Violet Oakley (1874 - 1961) (Painter)
Violet Oakley (1874 - 1961)

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Rose O'Neill Income & Net worth

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