Rose O'Neill, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rose O'Neill

American illustrator

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1874

Place of Birth: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 06-Apr-1944

Profession: comics artist, cartoonist, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Rose Cecil O'Neill (June 25, 1874 – April 6, 1944) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer.
She built a successful career as a magazine and book illustrator and, at a young age, became the best-known and highest- paid female commercial illustrator in the United States.
O' Neill earned a fortune and international fame by creating the Kewpie, the most widely known cartoon character until Mickey Mouse.The daughter of a book salesman and a homemaker, O'Neill was raised in rural Nebraska.
She exhibited interest in the arts at an early age, and sought a career as an illustrator in New York City at age fifteen.
Her Kewpie cartoons, which made their debut in a 1909 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, were later manufactured as bisque dolls in 1912 by J.
D.
Kestner, a German toy company, followed by composition material and celluloid versions.
The dolls were wildly popular in the early twentieth century, and are considered to be one of the first mass-marketed toys in the United States. O'Neill also wrote several novels and books of poetry, and was active in the women's suffrage movement.
She was for a time the highest-paid female illustrator in the world upon the success of the Kewpie dolls.



Alternative names	Gertrude Stanton Käsebier; Gertrude Stanton Kasebier; Gertrude Stanton; Gertrude Kasebier
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	18 May 1852	12 October 1934
Location of birth/death	Des Moines, United States of America	New York City, United States of America
Authority control	: Q271918 VIAF: 54950744 ISNI: 0000 0001 2133 792X ULAN: 500011698 LCCN: n79039161 MusicBrainz: 311bd146-a523-47fb-be5c-d33a95f160d2 WorldCat