Woman in a Flowered Hat
Date1913
Artist
Neysa Moran McMein
(American artist, illustrator, and sculptor, 1888–1949)
Illustration CitationCover illustration for the Sunday Magazine of the Chicago Record-Herald newspaper (September 28, 1913)
MediumPastel on laid paper
Dimensionssheet: 19 11/16 × 13 11/16 in. (50 × 34.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1988
Object number1988-136
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAfter The Saturday Evening Post published her first cover in 1916, Neysa McMein's work became a regular feature until 1923. Magazine illustrators of the time had various approaches to the "cover girl." McMein's sophisticated young women were unusual in that they were never shown smiling. After 1923, she designed all the covers for McCall's Magazine until 1937.