Neysa McMein
Neysa McMein , actually Marjorie Edna McMein (born January 24, 1888 in Quincy , Illinois , † May 12, 1949 in New York City , New York ) was an American illustrator .
Life
Marjorie Edna McMein grew up in a wealthy family in Quincy. Her parents recognized her artistic talent early on and let her study at the Art Institute of Chicago . McMein, 25, went to New York City with a friend and has been called Neysa McMein ever since . Here she studied art history for a few months at the Art Students' League and sold her first drawings to the Boston Star . The following year, The Saturday Evening Post published a sketch of her as a cover image. During the First World War , McMein was a lecturer in Paris.
Between the war years, McMein worked as an illustrator for McClure's , Liberty , Woman's Home Companion , Collier's Weekly and other magazines. She also made a name for herself as an advertising designer, including for Palmolive and Lucky Strike . In the spring of 1919 McMein met the theater critic Dorothy Parker and was an early member of the Algonquin Round Table , a loose group of journalists, writers and actors. The core of the artists who returned there at the time include Robert Benchley , Heywood Broun , Marc Connelly , Alice Duer Miller , Harpo Marx , Jascha Heifetz , Jane Grant , Ruth Hale , George S. Kaufman , Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross , Robert E. Sherwood , Alexander Woollcott , Franklin Pierce Adams , Edna Ferber , Irving Berlin and Bernard Baruch .
In 1921 McMein joined the women's rights organization Lucy Stone League , whose goal was, among other things, that women can keep their maiden name after marriage. Two years later she married the civil engineer and writer John Baragwanath, and the relationship resulted in a daughter, Joan.
In the late 1930s, the commercial style shifted in the advertising industry and McMein specialized in portraiture. Her clients included Warren G. Harding , Herbert C. 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 Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin . In 1942 she illustrated a comic strip Deathless Deer , written by Alicia Patterson .
literature
- Brian Gallagher: Anything Goes: The Jazz Age Adventures of Neysa McMein and Her Extravagant Circle of Friends. Times Books, New York 1987, ISBN 0-8129-1215-2 .
Web links
- Neysa McMein (English)
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McMein, Neysa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McMein, Marjorie Edna (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quincy , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1949 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York |