Artist. She received much acclaim for being an in-demand female artist during the early part of the 20th Century. Painting scores of magazine covers and creating iconic posters in World War I, she was the highest-paid artist of the Jazz Age, She became active in Women's Suffrage in New York State, a fashion icon, member of the Algonquin Round Table, and a volunteer in France during World War I. Born Marjorie Frances McMein, she was a daughter in the conservative family of Belle Parker and Harry McMein, who managed the family business, the McMein Publishing Company. After leaving home for the Art Institute of Chicago, she started drawing shoes and hats ads. By 1913, she had moved to New York City to further her career, was attending classes at Art Students League of New York, and changed her name to "Neysa." She attempted to become an actress, but turned to art after selling her first ad in 1914 to the newspaper, "The Boston Star." Her warm pastel drawings of young beautiful but chic American women were highly-sought bringing her monetary results. Her New York City studio, located on the northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and 57th Street was not only a place for her to work but became a place to entertain guests such as Harpo Marx, Cole Porter, Charles MacArthur, George Gershwin, Tallulah Bankhead and many more. Meeting for daily lunch during the 1920s and 1930s at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, she became a member of the American intelligentsia who were able addressed various subjects in print. She often painted the portraits or drew illustrations teaming with Dorothy Parker who wrote the article for her illustrations before publishing. She wrote her own magazines articles about beauty and fashion to be published with her art ads. She drew illustrations of beautiful women that graced on the cover of the magazines "Saturday Evening Post," "McCall's," "Sunday Magazine," and "Woman's Home Companion." Sixty of her illustrations appeared on the cover of "Saturday Evening Post" from 1923 to 1938. Her illustration of a woman voting published March 6, 1920 made the Post ahead of history as the United States Congress ratified the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920. She produced numerous advertisements using beautiful women for Palmolive Soap; other companies that used her illustrations were chewing gum, hosiery, and hair net companies of the era. She also did ads for the Cadillac automobile, Lucky Strike cigarettes, and Coca-Cola. During World War I, she drew posters for the United States and French governments and spent six months in France as a lecturer and entertainer along with the frightening experience of being exposed to bombings on the Western Front. Her father died while she was in Europe. In 1936 the General Mills Company commissioned her to create the image of Betty Crocker, a fictional American housewife that would become the brand name used as a seal of solid, middle-class domestic values; even in the twenty-first century Betty Crocker is a well-known name to women. With the decline of her popular style of commercial art in the late 1930s, she turned to portraits first in her pastel style then later in oil. Among her subjects were United States Presidents Warren Harding and Herbert Hoover; actors Beatrice Lillie, Helen Hayes, and Charlie Chaplin; poet Edna St. Vincent Millay; authors Dorothy Parker and Ann Morrow Lindbergh; aviator Amelia Earhart, and many others. At the height of her career she made $2,500 for every portrait. In 1923, the year her mother died, she married Jack Baragwanath, a successful mining engineer. Their marriage was opened but very successful; they had a daughter. Besides supporting women's right to vote, she fought for the right for a professional woman to use her maiden name instead of the surname belonging to her husband. Upon her death the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City established the Neysa McMein Purchase Award, which is to be used to purchase works by living American artists. Brian Gallagher's 1987 book, "Anything Goes: The Jazz Age of Neysa McMein and her Extravagant Circle of Friends" gives insight to her personality. The United States Post Office released a 20-stamp collection in February 2001 which included her illustrations. Her cause of death was cancer.