Marjorie Frances McMein (1889 - 1949)

Born 25 Jan 1889 in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States

Ancestors

Died 12 May 1949 at age 60 in New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

Neysa McMein is Notable.

Illustrator of iconic posters for the American war effort during the Great War, specifically for Red Cross campaigns

Neysa was born in 1889. She was the daughter of Harry Moran McMein and Anna Belle Parker). She was from Quincy, Illinois and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Students' League, New York. She contributed to the suffragette movement in New York. She married John C. Baragwanat but she did not change her name, as she was an early member of the Lucy Stone League. ^[1] They had one daughter in 1924.

After the Great War, she illustrated commercial advertisements including Lucky Strike cigarettes, Coca-Cola, Cadillac, and Palmolive; most notably creating the Betty Crocker character for General Mills in 1936.

She was the artist of every McCall's magazine cover from 1923-1937.

After illustrations fell out of style, she became a portrait painter. She painted portraits of presidents Herbert Hoover and Warren G. Harding.

In 2001, the US Postal Service issued a stamp in her honor.

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Stone_League

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Find A Grave: Memorial #111290770 bio written by Linda Davis, photos added by Beverly Kane and Ladies Making Comics
• Smithsonian National Postal Museum
• Census records attached to FamilySearch Person: M4YT-TQM
• Quinlivan, Bridget, "Once Upon A Time in Quincy: Local Woman Remembered for Famous Portraits". Herald Whig. Quincy, Illinois. September 30, 2011. Updated October 30, 2020.

See also:

• Wikipedia: Neysa McMein
• Wikidata: Item Q530624, en:Wikipedia
• McMein on Pete Beard's Unsung Heroes of Illustration
  
• Unsung Illustrators