Rose O’Neill was a famous Illustrator, cartoonist, artist, writer, and suffragette who kept a home in Walnut Shade, Missouri, known as Bonniebrook. These objects were excavated from the Bonniebrook property after the house burned down in 1947 and were later donated to the Rose O’Neill Historical Society upon the establishment of the Bonniebrook Museum. They are all functional … [Read more...] about Metal Objects Excavated from the Rose O’Neill Homestead: Researched and Conserved by Hannah Overton
This hand-thrown lid for a stoneware crockery vessel was excavated from Bonniebrook, the estate of American illustrator, cartoonist, artist, writer, and suffragette Rose O’Neill, who is best-known for her invention of the Kewpie doll character. Several years after O’Neill’s death in 1944, her house at Bonniebrook burned to the ground, and curious local people … [Read more...] about Hand-Thrown Lid: Researched, Conserved, and Reconstructed by Sabrina Osment