She is shown to be about ten years old, dressed in contemporary American fashions, with blonde hair cut in a fashionable bob. He illustrated the young girl in a more fashionable appearance. Neill chose to illustrate a new Dorothy in 1907 when the character was reintroduced in Ozma of Oz. In 19, he contributed a great deal of artwork to Argosy.ĭorothy drawn by Denslow appeared to be a chubby five- or six-year-old with long brown hair in two thick braids that remained untied at the ends. Nicholas, The People's Home Journal, Adventure and many others. Neill's illustrations were published in the leading magazines of the first few decades of the twentieth century, including Collier's, Vanity Fair, The Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies Home Journal, Century, Pictorial Review, The Delineator, Boys' Life, St. In fact, he was later named the Imperial Illustrator of Oz. However, as the series expanded, Neill brought his own unique flair to the illustrations, showing more artistic representations of the characters as well as beautiful paintings of numerous scenes. Denslow's illustrations had been quite popular. Originally, Neill's illustrations were slightly reminiscent of Denslow's to bring continuity and familiarity to the characters, although Neill's work in this period was far more reminiscent of the work of his contemporary and friend, illustrator Joseph Clement Coll. Denslow, with whom Baum argued and lost contact afterward. Frank Baum wrote, published in 1904 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been illustrated by W. He was first commissioned to illustrate The Marvelous Land of Oz, the second Oz book L. Frank Baum), Children's Stories That Never Grow Old, and the Sunday comics page 'The Little Journeys of Nip and Tuck' with verses by W.R. He became a staff artist of the Philadelphia North American newspaper, for which he produced features like the comics strip Toyland, illustrations for the serialization of 'The Fate of a Crown' (a book by L. He then turned to advertising art for the Wanamaker department store in Philadelphia. Neill dropped out of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts after one semester because he said, "they have nothing to teach me". Neill did his first illustration work for the Philadelphia's Central High School newspaper in 1894-95. He did a great deal of magazine and newspaper illustration work which is not as well known today.īorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, John R. His pen-and-ink drawings have become identified almost exclusively with the Oz series. Frank Baum's, Ruth Plumly Thompson's, and three of his own. John Rea Neill was a magazine and children's book illustrator primarily known for illustrating more than forty stories set in the Land of Oz, including L.
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