Artist:
Rose Cecil O'Neill
(American, 1874 - 1944)
A Good Thing in Certain Cases
Medium: Pen and ink on paper
Date: 1900
Dimensions:
15 3/8 × 22 1/4 in. (39.1 × 56.5 cm)
Accession number: 2020.1.2
Label Copy:
Rose O’Neill achieved perhaps greater recognition than any female illustrator in the early twentieth century. Entirely self-taught, she began a professional career as an illustrator while still a teenager. She moved to New York City from her family home in Omaha, Nebraska, to work with major publishers, such as Cosmopolitan and Life. Her work among the predominantly male staff at Puck, the leading satirical magazine, was unprecedented at the time. She gained prominence as a cartoonist and for her work in advertising, book illustration, and fine art. O’Neill was also the creator of the wildly popular Kewpie comics, and later the iconic Kewpie doll.
Curatorial RemarksCaption with illustration: "Mrs. Henpeque (reading). -- It says here that
this new elixer of life will make a man live for two hundred years!
Mr. Henpeque. -- If I was a bachelor I'd buy a bottle!"
this new elixer of life will make a man live for two hundred years!
Mr. Henpeque. -- If I was a bachelor I'd buy a bottle!"