Title: Fortune : Bah! why do artists always represent Fortune as a woman? ...
Abstract: Title continues: Because of the way she smiles on the rich fellows, regardless of their other qualities.
Caption label from exhibit Monstrous Craws...: Rose Cecil O'Neill (1874-1944) was one of the few women to achieve extraordinary financial success and professional independence in early twentieth-century American cartooning. This drawing, which makes gently wicked fun of the largely male readership of Puck magazine, is representative of her distinctively bold, yet fluid, Art Nouveau-inspired style. Celebrated illustrator, author, and creator of the Kewpie doll, O'Neill began her career at the age of fifteen and by 1895 had sold drawings to the top humorous publications of the day, including Puck, Judge, Life, and Harper's. In 1909, she introduced readers of Ladies'Home Journal to The Kewpies, cherubic cartoon characters that soon became a national craze that spun off lucrative contracts for dolls and other merchandise, as well as a popular syndicated Sunday comic strip. Such wealth enabled O'Neill, with her sister, Callista, to hold salons in her Greenwich Village studio and create experimental drawings unlike the work for which she is usually known. Critics praised her one-woman exhibition of these drawings, held in Paris in 1921.
(DLC/PP-1933:0205).
Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Published as comic in: Puck, 53 (April 15, 1903).
Exhibited: Monstrous Craws and Character Flaws: Masterpieces of Cartoon Caricature, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., February 25-July 1998.
Exhibit loan 4168-L.
Publication Year: 1903
Publication Date: 1903-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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