Rose O'Neill
Illustrator

Rose O'Neill Net Worth

Rose O'Neill was an influential artist and writer born in Pennsylvania in 1874. She is best known for creating the popular Kewpies comic strip and the highly successful Kewpie doll line, which made her the world's wealthiest female illustrator. In addition to her art, she was a published author of fiction and poetry and was an advocate for women's suffrage in the early 20th century.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day June 25, 1874
Birth Place Pennsylvania
Age 145 YEARS OLD
Died On Apr 6, 1944 (age 69)
Birth Sign Cancer

💰 Net worth: $8 Million (2024)

About

In the early 1900s, she created the popular Kewpies comic strip, which inspired America's highly successful Kewpie doll line and resulted in O'Neill being named the world's wealthiest female Illustrator. Apart from her work as an Artist, she published works of fiction and poetry and was involved in the early 20th-century women's suffrage movement.

Before Fame

By the time she was fifteen, she was working as an Illustrator for the periodicals The Great Divide and The Excelsior. Soon thereafter, she became a Cartoonist for New York City's True magazine.

Trivia

In 1914, she married her Kewpie cartoons to poster art for the women's suffrage movement, creating an image portraying a marching Kewpie holding a sign that read "Votes for Women."

Family Life

One of seven children born to william and Alice O'Neill, she spent her youth in Pennsylvania and Nebraska and later lived in New York and Missouri. After her marriage to Gray Latham ended in divorce, she married and later divorced Novelist Harry Leon Wilson.

Associated With

Exemplars of the "New Woman" ideal of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she and her contemporary and fellow Artist, Violet Oakley, were two of the first successful female illustrators.

Some Rose O'Neill images

About the author

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