Neysa at her artist's easel in the early 1920s

Neysa McMein (1888-1949) was an American artist. 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ...

She was born Margery Edna McMein on January 24, 1888 in Quincy, Illinois. She attended the Art Institute of Chicago and in 1913 went to New York City. After a brief stint as an actress she turned to commercial art. On the advice of a numerologist she adopted the name Neysa, and she thereafter credited the name change with her rapid success. January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Quincy, known as the Gem City, is a city located in Adams County, Illinois. ... On the western edge of Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, is the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the premier art museums and schools in the United States, known especially for the extensive collection of impressionist and American art in its museum. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg Area  - Land  - Water 1,214. ...

McMein studied at the Art Students' League for a few months and in 1914 sold her first drawing to the Boston Star. The next year she sold a cover to the Saturday Evening Post. Her warm pastel drawings of chic, healthy American girls proved highly popular and brought her many commissions. During World War I she drew posters for the United States and French governments and spent six months in France as a lecturer and entertainer. From 1923 through 1937 McMein provided all of McCall's covers. She also supplied work to McClure's, Liberty, Woman's Home Companion, Collier's, Photoplay, and other magazines, and she created advertising graphics for such accounts as Palmolive soap and Lucky Strike cigarettes. General Mills's Marjorie C. Husted commissioned her to create the image of "Betty Crocker," a fictional housewife whose brand name was intended to be a seal of solid middle-class domestic values. There have been many publications called the Saturday Evening Post; several were/are local British newspapers. ... Missing image Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... McCall is a city located in Valley County, Idaho. ... McClures or McClures Magazine was a popular United States illustrated monthly magazine at the turn of the 20th century, often compared to the longer-running The Atlantic Monthly. ... Liberty, or freedom, is a condition in which an individual has immunity from the arbitrary exercise of authority. ... Colliers Weekly was a United States magazine that was published between 1888 and 1957. ... Photoplay was one of the first celebrity magazines. ... Colgate redirects here. ... Lucky Strike is a brand of cigarettes. ... General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is a corporation, mainly concerned with food products, that is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. ... Betty Crocker, an invented persona and mascot, is a brand name and trademark of American food company General Mills. ...

Alongside a highly successful career as an illustrator and designer, McMein managed a brilliant social life. A lively and unselfconsciously beautiful woman, she became a regular member of the Algonquin Round Table set, with her closest friends including Alexander Woollcott, Alice Duer Miller, and Jascha Heifetz. Franklin Pierce Adams, Robert Benchley, Edna Ferber, Irving Berlin, and Bernard Baruch were also among her companions, and her West 57th Street studio was a popular gathering place. In 1923 she made an unconventionally unrestrictive marriage with John C. Baragwanath, a mining engineer and author. The Algonquin Round Table was a group of some of the most brilliant writers of the 1920s and 1930s, though it endured long after that. ... Categories: Stub | 1887 births | 1943 deaths ... Alice Duer Miller (28 July 1874 - 22 August 1942) was an American writer and poet. ... Jascha Heifetz 1740 Guarneri del Gesu, the ex. ... Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881 - March 23, 1960), was an American columnist (under the pen name F.P.A.), writer, and wit, part of the famous Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s. ... Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 in Worcester, Massachusetts – November 21, 1945) was a humorist, newspaper columnist, film actor, drama editor. ... Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885-April 16, 1968), author Edna Ferber was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan on August 15, 1885. ... Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888–September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist. ... Cover of Time Magazine (February 25, 1924) Bernard Mannes Baruch (August 19, 1870 – June 20, 1965) was an American financier, stock market and commodities speculator, statesman, and presidential adviser. ...

McMein's more private artistic ambitions lay in the field of portraiture, at first in pastels and later in oil. With the decline in popularity of her style of commercial art in the later 1930s, she turned increasingly to portraiture. Among her subjects were Presidents Warren G. Harding and Herbert Hoover, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Dorothy Parker, Janet Flanner, Katharine Cornell, Helen Hayes, Dorothy Thompson, Anatole France, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Evans Hughes, and Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (McMein had been one of the first women to fly in Zeppelin's dirigible). McMein died in New York, New York, on May 12, 1949. Order: 29th President Vice President: Calvin Coolidge Term of office: March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923 Preceded by: Woodrow Wilson Succeeded by: Calvin Coolidge Date of birth: November 2, 1865 Place of birth: Near Blooming Grove, Ohio Date of death: August 2, 1923 Place of death: San Francisco, California First... Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) is best known as being the 31st (1929-1933) President of the United States. ... Edna St. ... Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an author and pioneering American aviator. ... Dorothy Parker (born Dorothy Rothschild) (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American writer and poet best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles. ... Janet Flanner (March 13, 1892 - November 7, 1978) was an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of the New Yorker magazine from its inception in 1925 until she retired in 1975. ... Katharine Cornell (February 16, 1898 - June 9, 1974) was an American actress noted for her major roles in serious dramas, often directed by her husband Guthrie McClintic. ... Helen Hayes circa 1931 Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 - March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose successful and award-winning career spanned almost 70 years. ... Disambiguation:- (Dorothy Thompson (nee Towers) (1923- ) is also the historian wife of the late E. P. Thompson; she is a leading expert on the Chartist movement. ... Anatole France (April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924) was the pen name of French author Jacques Anatole François Thibault. ... Chaplin in his costume as The Tramp Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977) was the most famous actor in early to mid Hollywood cinema, and later also a notable director. ... Portrait of U.S. Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the United States Charles Evans Hughes Charles Evans Hughes (April 11, 1862–August 27, 1948) was a Governor of New York, a United States Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the United States. ... Ferdinand von Zeppelin This page is about the German aviation pioneer, for other meanings, see Graf Zeppelin (disambiguation) Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (April 8 or July 8, 1838 - March 8, 1917) was the founder of the Zeppelin airship company. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

From Encyclopedia Britanica Online (http://www.britannica.com/women/articles/McMein_Neysa.html).

External links

• Cynthia Gallaher's website on Neysa McMein (http://www.geocities.com/swimmer53/neysa.html)