Neysa McMein

Neysa Moran McMein (born Marjorie Frances McMein; January 24, 1888 – May 12, 1949) was an American illustrator and portrait painter who studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. She began her career as an illustrator and during World War I, she traveled across France witty military troops subsequently Anita P. Wilcox and Jane Bulley and made posters to hold the warfare effort. She was made an honorary non-commissioned superintendent in the United States Marine Corps for her contributions to the raid effort.

McMein was a successful illustrator of magazine covers, advertisements, and magazine articles for national publications, like McClure's, McCall's, The Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's. McMein created the portrait of a fictional housewife "Betty Crocker" for General Mills. She was plus a rich portrait painter who painted the portraits of presidents, actors, and writers.

Algonquin Round Table members were entertained at her West 57th Street studio, where she was known for her supple parties. Life magazine wrote an article approximately adult party games, which featured stories not quite McMein's parties. She had an gain permission to marriage to John G. Baragwanath, during which she had affairs next Charlie Chaplin and George Abbott. Baragwanath described their marriage as a affluent one based on a deep friendship.

She was inducted into the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame in 1984, 35 years after her death. McMein was one of 20 Society of Illustrators' artists to have their con published on a United States Postal Service Collectible Stamp sheet in 2001.