Elinor Rose McCabe, a commercial artist and painter for most of her adult life, died of pneumonia April 26 in Novato, Calif. She was 94.

Mrs. McCabe was born in Astoria, Ore., to Ella Potts Lancaster and Albert Callender Rose. Her grandfather, Samuel Lancaster, was the chief engineer for the Columbia River Highway project, an engineering feat in its time. The family moved to Washington, D.C., when she was 10. She graduated from the Chevy Chase School for Girls, attended American University for two years and Corcoran School of Art for one year.

She married Joseph Hale Darby, an architect with the firm Justement, Elim and Darby of Washington, D.C. Mrs. McCabe was a commercial artist who illustrated books and was a fashion artist for Woodward & Lothrop and Lansburgh’s Department Store in Washington, D.C.

After her first husband’s death in 1959, she married Lewis Bates McCabe, a book editor. They had homes in Washington, D.C. and on the Vineyard, where she was a member of the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club and the Unitarian Church in Vineyard Haven. She worked in her studio in Mink Meadows.

After Mr. McCabe’s death, she moved to Petaluma, Calif., in 1982 to be near her children.

She is survived by a brother, Samuel Rose of Roseburg, Ore.; a daughter, Hale Darby of Santa Rosa, Calif.; a son, Jonathan Darby of Lehigh Acres, Fla.; and another daughter, Katherine Darby of San Francisco, Calif. She is also survived by one granddaughter and three great-grandchildren.