the games that she employed at her parties were featured in a Life magazine article in 1946. McMein also entertained at the house she bought with Baragwanath on the North Shore of Long Island in Sands Point. In 1942, she broke her back by falling downstairs during a sleepwalking episode. McMein was then required to have surgery to graft part of her hip to her spine. Death McMein died of cancer on May 12, 1949, in New York City and was survived by daughter Joan and her husband John Baragwanath. In her will, McMein bequeathed monies to purchase works of arts annually by the Whitney Museum of American Art. The museum bought 72 purchases from 1956, none of which were McMein's works. Like other illustrators' works, her illustrations were not considered fine art. In 1984, McMein was inducted into the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. The United States Post Office released a 20-stamp collection in February 2001 that are based upon works created by 20 Society of Illustrators' artists, including McMein, Rockwell Kent, Al Parker, Howard Pyle, Jessie Smith, and Joseph Leyendecker. Collections Central School of Speech and Drama - Beatrice Lillie, Delaware Art Museum - Possibly a Cover Illustration, pastel on paper, 1919 Library of Congress - One of the thousand Y.M.C.A. girls in France. Y.M.C.A., poster, 1918 Alice Marshall's Women History Collection, Penn University, Harrisburg McCall's, June 1925 McCall's, August 1929 Advertisement for San-Tox Preparations, The American Magazine, 1919 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Print: Birches, silk textile, 1925 American Print: Hollywood, silk textile, 1925 Piece, silk textile, 1927 Museum of the City of New York, Theatre Collection - Miss Katharine Cornell Princeton University Poster Collection 1863-1948 One of the thousand Y.M.C.A. girls in France. Y.M.C.A., poster, 1918 Woman in cape and robe holding a sword and an oar, Grand Military Naval Meet and Ball, Benefit of Women's Oversea Hospitals, poster, 1917 Quincy Art Center, Illinois Published works Illustrator Author In popular culture McMein was portrayed by actress Rebecca Miller in the film Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994). Notes References Further reading External links 1880s births 1949 deaths American portrait painters American women illustrators American illustrators American women painters American female comics artists People from Port Washington, New York People from Quincy, Illinois School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women artists Algonquin Round Table