![]() ![]() ![]() 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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