Rare Collection Rose O'Neill Bisque Kewpies
$ 1478.4
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Rare Collection Rose O'Neill Bisque Kewpies. RARE Collection of Rose O'Neill Bisque Kewpies!These are the real deal! There are 12 Kewpie dolls included in the collection. Most are stamped on the bottom. She exhibited interest in the arts at an early age, and sought a career as an illustrator in New York City. RARE Collection of Rose O'Neill Bisque Kewpies!These are the real deal! There are 12 Kewpie dolls included in the collection. Most are stamped on the bottom. Rose Cecil O'Neill (June 25, 1874 – April 6, 1944) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She rose to fame for her creation of the popular comic strip characters, Kewpies, in 1909, and was also the first published female cartoonist in the United States.The daughter of a book salesman and a homemaker, O'Neill was raised in rural Nebraska. She exhibited interest in the arts at an early age, and sought a career as an illustrator in New York City. Her Kewpie cartoons, which made their debut in a 1909 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, were later manufactured as bisque dolls in 1912 by J. D. Kestner, a German toy company, followed by composition material and celluloid versions. The dolls were wildly popular in the early twentieth century, and are considered to be one of the first mass-marketed toys in the United States.
