Rose O'Neill
(25/6/1874 - 6/4/1944, USA)
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Kewpies (3/4/1937)
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Rose Cecil O'Neill was born on June 25, 1874. She won a children's art contest at age thirteen, and began a weekly cartoon series for the Omaha World Herald. Her cartoons appeared in various national magazines. She drew her first group of clustered cupids, which she called 'Kewpies', in 1905.
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Their public impact was sensational. Rose O'Neill claimed that the Kewpies appeared to her in a dream. She ended up drawing them for over a quarter of a century. During the First World War, she returned from Europe to the United States, where she became active in the campaign for women's rights. Rose O'Neill died on 6 April 1944.
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