O’Neill Rose Cecil Kewpie Women Gossip 1903 Children Exhibited Editorial Original Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing

Description:
O’Neill Rose Cecil Kewpie Women Gossip 1903 Children Exhibited Editorial Original Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing from the Prestigious Charles L. Howard Collection

Rose Cecil O'Neill (June 25, 1874 – April 6, 1944) was an illustrator who created a popular cupid-like comic called Kewpie, which later evolved into Kewpie Dolls. She did drawings for several magazines including Truth, Puck, Good Housekeeping, Life, and even wrote the novels The Loves of Edwy (1904) and The Lady in the White Veil (1909). This illustration titled “Gossip” shows a beautiful young woman in a nice floral dress sipping tea while another woman, with her hand to her mouth wispers to her friend. Signed lower right O’Neill with Charles L. Howard Label bottom center matt. Exhibition labels verso: Junior Arts Club, Dowagiac, Michigan 1941.

Winning bidder will receive a Certificate of Authenticity with the drawing

Approx. Dimensions or Size: 15x20.25 inches image site, 22x28 inches overall

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Estimated Weight of Package: 11 lbs.

Package size: 32 x 32 x 2

Cons./Inv. Code: The present lot is inventory number Clh 95 in the Charles L. Howard Collection, one of two hundred lots that will be continuously added to this online catalogue on a daily basis between today and the day of sale. The first 100 to 125 lots will be Important Original Illustration Art and the second 100 to 125 lots are comprised of Original Railroad Art. Please check our listings regularly during the coming days for many exciting discoveries.
Low & High Ests: 800 /1200 Starting Bid: 400

The state of preservation of these original illustration drawings that are on average over 65 years old is quite exceptional. Very, very few have any creases, tears or losses to the paper and the ink has remained uniformly vivid thanks to the family’s dry flat storage. Given that these were working drawings from which prints were made the expected edge annotations, highlighting, inscriptions, pasted labels, tack holes, staples, glue residues and scattered corrections can be found variously on the examples as illustrated in the photographs. These all add to the authenticity and immediacy of the Wartime newsroom and pressroom atmosphere, serving to reinforce the iconic status of these rare surviving testimonies to the political illustrator’s art. In a few examples additional notations have been made in the description section of the catalogue text for significant damage, however the condition sensitive collector is encouraged to contact our sale expert for additional lot details in advance of the auction date.