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2009 was the 100th Anniversary of the first appearance of the
Kewpies
in the Ladies Home Journal, December 1909
In
Memory of Rose Cecil O'Neill
Artist, Illustrator, Writer, & Sculptor
(1874 - 1944)
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Rose
O'Neill is known as the mother of the Kewpie, Scootles, and Ho-Hos. Her
illustrations were carried by the foremost magazines of her time: Puck,
Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Delineator, Woman's Home
Companion, Truth, Brooklyn Life, Up To Date, and many more. Her
illustrations also appeared in popular period books, authored by Harry
Leon Wilson, Maude Radford Warren, Josephine Daskam Bacon, Parker
Fillmore, Lenora Mattingly Weber, and Witter Bynner.
The
International Rose O'Neill Club Foundation ("IROCF") was founded in
1967 with the Aims and Objectives to preserve and perpetuate the memory
and works of Rose O'Neill, to promote the cultural arts, and to hold an
annual celebration in Branson, Missouri, to be known as Kewpiesta. The
Club continues to provide scholarships to aid needy talented students
in the area of arts, in keeping with the philosophy of Rose O'Neill to
help others as she did in her lifetime and will establish a suitable
memorial to Rose O'Neill.
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