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Rose Cecil O'Neill And Her Kewpies
In early 20th-century America, perhaps no product was as famous as the Kewpie doll. These cute, chubby toys with their mischievous smile and distinctive topknot were everywhere: they were Beanie Babies, Barbies and Cabbage Patch Kids one. Although their popularity has declined, they still considered one of their time 's most famous symbols of American popular culture.
The story of the Kewpies goes further than the dolls themselves. They were the establishment of a flamboyant artist named Rose Cecil O'Neill, an unusual woman for her time in almost every way. O'Neill lived great, enthusiastic and above all, artistic, Kewpies and were an essential part of the persona she projected. "I have all my love for humanity in this little picture, " she once remarked. Indeed, the story of the dolls is impossible to separate the story of their creator.
"The fairies endowed Rose O'Neill with great gifts, "One biographer wrote, and it was true. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1874, O'Neill had remarkable artistic talent. At 13 years old, 10 years after her family moved to Nebraska, she won a drawing competition in her adopted hometown of Omaha. Her picture is so advanced that the judges did not believe that a child had done. (The title, "Temptation Leading in an abyss, " was refined, too, or maybe just pretentious;. With O'Neill, it is sometimes difficult to prove the difference telling) Four years later, shortly after touring with a professional acting troupe, she had become an up-and-coming commercial artist whose work appeared in magazines in the West and Midwest.
For a young woman in late 19th-century America, this was no small feat. Female artists of the time got very little recognition. "I will not admit that a woman can paint like that, " the French artist Edgar Degas had already said about the work of U.S. foreign Cassait Mary, and although Cassait had a name for themselves, regardless of Degas "attitude prevails in American thought. It seemed unlikely that O'Neill on 17 that would ever do more than a lot of drawings for regional publications.
Working on a limited stage, was not O 'Neill ' s style. Independent and ambitious, she was determined to make her way in the arts. Consequently, when her family moved to the Missouri Ozarks in 1891, O'Neill decided not to go. Instead, the teen traveled to New York City aboard a monastery and put out to convince the country 's Premier Magazine Editors for her work published.
This could not have an easy task. Not only was O'Neill a woman but she was so young that treaty requires a chaperone in her case, a non-to accompany her during her visit the offices of the male editors. And while her art was attractive, had O'Neill not mastered some of the basics of drawing. Largely self-taught, she had attended art school briefly in hopes of learning more, but found the curriculum and teaching methods boring. "She knows so little about perspective, " a wanted person, "That they are bewildered by even one as simple as putting a performance table or chair in an image for the background. "
Nevertheless, O'Neill had plenty in its favor. They 'talent shone, "as another put it, and she beamed certainty and confidence as well. The combination of the portfolio and the personality convinced editors a chance, and her work to be signed with the initials only because she was disguised woman, soon began to appear on national magazines such as Life, Puck and Harper 's Monthly. Then she pulled her ads for Jell-O, Kellogg 's Corn Flakes, Oxydol and other products. By the early 1900, she was one of the nation 's best illustrators Known.
With no financial worries, O'Neill began to dabble in other artistic endeavors. She studied sculpture, wrote the first of four novels and tried her hand at poetry, most of these passionate, mystical and otherworldly. Some readers praised O'Neill and the great themes of love and even cryptic death that ran through her literary works. "There is something colossal about Rose O'Neill, " mused later critic, speaking for many. "She is not to be judged by one of our usual standards. " Others, however, found her bloated and pretentious writing. " Completely undisciplined, "fulminated a reviewer. " Grammar and meaning are often left even in her anthropomorphic descriptions. "
O'Neill was encouraged by the positive reviews, but they took equal pleasure in the negative. As her career flourished, O'Neill has a self-conscious "artistic "Form. She saw herself as a great creative mind unimpeded by mere convention. Would like to show off this character, she dressed in long flowing robes, made baby talk and her artistic friends happy with philosophical statements about the relationship between "life " and "art. "
Unfortunately, O 'Neill ' s love life was not going nearly as well as her career. She married twice, but every marriage, both child less ended in divorce. She found her first husband to check her half depressed. In 1908, after the second relationship fell apart, O'Neill left New York for the repose of her parents 'Missouri city. There she bought her family a nice house and settled down to lick her wounds.
Time away from the crowds and the drama of New York City was exactly what Rose O'Neill required. With no fellow artists to impress and not to fill spotlight, O'Neill devoted herself to her drawing. Her art was already leaning towards a cute, sentimental style, and now she experimented further in that direction.
In 1909, O'Neill sent her editors in New York's most recent work: sketches of chubby, smiling baby with big eyes and topknot. Taken with the animals, Edward Bok of Ladies 'Home Journal, suggested that O'Neill expansion the drawings for a comic page feature. O'Neill quickly agreed. Refinement of the characters further, she called them Kewpies, a word which she explained as a diminutive of Cupid.
Although the derivation of the name is clearly the inspiration for the drawings is not. At one point, O'Neill described the Kewpies as a cross between Cupid and one of her brothers as a small child. Later, though, perhaps out of fear that this explanation was not artistic enough, they insisted instead that the creatures were appeared to her in a dream. "They were everywhere in my room, " she said breathlessly, "on my bed, and a high on my hand. I woke up I saw them everywhere! "
As inspiration, O'Neill made the same kind Kewpies and naughty. They invested not only with nature but also an appropriate artistic vision. Kewpies were simple, playful and good-natured. But O'Neill, of course, preferably to its usual high-flown way of saying that: "Kewpie philosophy takes the slowness of wisdom, put cheerio in charity and philanthropy draws the fangs of the . "
The Kewpie first adventure, "The Kewpies 'Christmas Frolic, "published in the December 1909 Ladies 'Home Journal. Written in verse, the story describes how the band changed Kewpie presented as a practical joke one Christmas morning, so "guns for Grandma 'and dictionaries for babies, and then provide presents for a poor girl who had none. Poetry left something to be desired, with verses like:
The Wights Kewpie-date night,
All troll rum-te-tum,
Net puddings as they are pleasant sights
Well-rounded at the Tum-te-tum.
But the drawings more than made up for the banality of the verse. Laughing cherubic Kewpies covers the page-pull toys, peering in packs and usually with a ball.
O'Neill had designed Kewpies to be rugged enough to attract young children as real to the readers 'heartstrings. Her drawings nailed the beautiful combination. Letters poured in Bok 's offices, begging for more. Eager to cash in before interest rates fell, O'Neill was the Ladies 'Home Journal series about an overnight Kewpie children ' s book in print and paper dolls on the market called Kewpie Kutouts, the first paper doll to print front and back.
Interest, however, not drop. Instead they rose. A smart business woman, despite her artistic temperament, O'Neill gave the audience what it wanted. Quickly, she launched an array of tie-ins and related products that would have Disney made proud. Kewpie ties, music boxes and inkwells appeared. Kewpie soap on the market, just like Kewpie salt shakers, earrings and dozens more Kewpie Kewpie products. O 'Neill was happy to have all types of licensed merchandise and happier to watch the money pour in.
In 1912, nearly three years after the first Kewpie adventure, O'Neill was the largest marketing spin-off of all: the Kewpie doll. With the help of a design student, constructs a doll from a cheap kind of porcelain bisque said. The doll looked just like the magazine Kewpies, with crest and goofy grin. The first product is sold out so quickly that O'Neill knew she had a winner on its hands.
Fast, O'Neill decided to branch out. The key to success, she reasoned, was to develop dozens of dolls and customers as much as possible to encourage buying. Models made of wood, ivory, celluloid and rubber quickly joined the bisque dolls. Factories churned Kewpies small enough to fit in a pocket and Kewpies almost as big as a toddler. O 'Neill produced soldier dolls, ethnic dolls, character dolls and much more. She was a pioneer, since her time, many successful toy marketers have followed exactly This strategy appeals to the collector of their customers.
Kewpie doll took the country by storm. Carnival bought thousands to give away as prizes. Kewpie trading clubs formed in cities across America. Children begged their parents for one model after another. Kewpie factories in different countries working overtime to meet demand. Not even the outbreak of World War I could alter the Kewpies 'grip on the national consciousness. No longer a craze, they were a way of life.
In fact, the passionate interest Kewpie was in all things are of course not until the mid 1920s. By that time, O'Neill had almost 1.5 million U.S. dollars of its creation. She spent most Part of her time in the mansion where she lived with her second husband, in rural Connecticut, not far from the Manhattan literary world. Rich beyond her dreams, she usually gave illustration and concentrated instead on her far less lucrative literary career.
In the first place, but she focused on that Rose O'Neill, the artist. Her eccentricities mushrooms: They called her home after a fairy tale character and called her boiler ". Kewpie " Her house was full of ambitious young poets and painters, with whom they discussed art and philosophy at all hours. A young couple, invited to visit for a weekend, stayed for two years. Many of these people had no clear artistic talent, but not counted at all 'Neill O "They were all geniuses in her " a journalist wrote in 1930, "because it was their intentions and not their work that they reviewed them. "
But even Kewpie money could not continue this lifestyle forever. O 'Neill ' s generosity tastes and eventually surpassed her fortune. In 1936 she sold her home in Connecticut, and finally returned to Missouri. She tried once or twice to her success with other Kewpie dolls replicating But times and tastes had changed. If O'Neill was deceased in 1944, she was totally broke.
Though O'Neill is dead, lives on her invention. Manufacturers continue replicas and knock offs to produce the dolls, especially for the collector 'market. The Internet auction site eBay has an entire category dedicated to Rose O 'Neill ' s Kewpies, Kewpie with about 200 items for sale at a given time. Singers are described as "Kewpie-doll " vote actresses as "Kewpie-doll " appears. Nearly a century after their introduction, Kewpies remains an icon of American popular culture.
As for Rose O 'Neill herself, she takes a place in American history, though perhaps not the one they would have chosen. Her highbrow literary efforts are largely forgotten. Her drawing style is commercially focused much of an impact on the serious art. Today, some encyclopedia of American artists call it an omission that she would no doubt have found annoying.
Yet O'Neill would be delighted to know how well her creations have survived. She never thought that the Kewpies were a waste of hair or of time. Instead, she took pride in their creation and even more proud of their popularity. That they were fit for an extension of her very successful career in commercial art. While her serious work did not last, Rose O 'Neill ' s contribution to American culture has stood the test of time.
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