Rose o neill

Rose O'Neill was one of the most prolific artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries. She was the first woman cartoonist in America and the first woman staff artist at Puck Magazine. O'Neill illustrated for magazines during the Golden Age of Illustration. She worked alongside such notables as Charles Dana Gibson, J.C. Leyendecker, and James Montgomery Flagg. Some of the other publications she worked for include The Great Divide, Truth, Life, Harpers, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Woman's…

Rose O'Neill

"The Troll Maiden" by Rose O'Neill

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If Beethoven had gone deaf all at once, he might not have developed into Beethoven. He might simply have adapted to the loss, as many others have. But Beethoven's hearing gradually slipped away over 25 years, coming and going unpredictably. It faded tantalizingly in and out of reach as he was trying to realize his artistic visions. This slow torture caused him daily anguish. He could never be certain whether he would be capable of conducting a concert. Worse, he never knew which precious…

Rose Cecil O'Neill was an iconoclast in every sense of the word. A self-taught bohemian artist, who ascended through a male-dominated field to become a top illustrator and the first to build a merchandising empire from her work, with her invention of the Kewpie doll.

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