The Great Drawing- Room Was Haunted by a Tuneful Spirit That Came and Went
Type:Illustration
Size:26.25" x 16.50"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Lower Left
Jessie Willcox Smith ART FOR SALE
1863 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1935 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known for: Child figure-genre painting, magazine and book illustration.
A pre-eminent illustrator and student of Howard Pyle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she was known for her Good Housekeeping magazine covers of which she did several hundred and for other... Read full biography
A pre-eminent illustrator and student of Howard Pyle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she was known for her Good Housekeeping magazine covers of which she did several hundred and for other children's story illustrations. She was educated at the School of Design for Women* and the... Read full biography
A pre-eminent illustrator and student of Howard Pyle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she was known for her Good Housekeeping magazine covers of which she did several hundred and for other children's story illustrations. She was educated at the School of Design for Women* and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts* in Philadelphia from 1885 to 1888, and in 1888, had her first illustrations published in St. Nicholas magazine. In 1894, she began study with Howard Pyle, who made... Read full biography
A pre-eminent illustrator and student of Howard Pyle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she was known for her Good Housekeeping magazine covers of which she did several hundred and for other children's story illustrations. She was educated at the School of Design for Women* and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts* in Philadelphia from 1885 to 1888, and in 1888, had her first illustrations published in St. Nicholas magazine. In 1894, she began study with Howard Pyle, who made illustration seem happy and easy, an attitude she welcomed after the what she perceived as the serious, moody, coldness of the atmosphere at the Pennsylvania Academy. Pyle teamed Smith with Violet Oakley to do colour chromolithographs* for Houghton Mifflin's... Read full biography
A pre-eminent illustrator and student of Howard Pyle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she was known for her Good Housekeeping magazine covers of which she did several hundred and for other children's story illustrations. She was educated at the School of Design for Women* and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts* in Philadelphia from 1885 to 1888, and in 1888, had her first illustrations published in St. Nicholas magazine. In 1894, she began study with Howard Pyle, who made illustration seem happy and easy, an attitude she welcomed after the what she perceived as the serious, moody, coldness of the atmosphere at the Pennsylvania Academy. Pyle teamed Smith with Violet Oakley to do colour chromolithographs* for Houghton Mifflin's edition of Longfellow's Evangeline. A major landmark in her success was illustrating in 1905 A Chil... Read full biography
Jessie Willcox Smith - Art for Sale (6 available)
Rhymes of Real Children
Type:Illustration
Year:1903
Size:18.00" x 15.75"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Betty Sage, Rhymes of Real Children, New York, 1903, illustrated on the cover
The Pink Bonnet
Type:Illustration
Size:25.00" x 22.00"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
"Woman's Home Companion", issue November, 1914. Number 1630 (bears label verso)
Dream Blocks
Type:Illustration
Year:1908
Size:28.00" x 19.75"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
The first of fourteen illustrations for Aileen C. Higgins' book Dream Blocks, published by Duffield & Co. in 1908. This work was the frontispiece for the book of poetry.
New Year's Baby
Type:Illustration
Year:1910
Size:16.00" x 16.00"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Illustration for the cover of "Good Housekeeping," January 1925
A Broken Head and Heart
Type:Illustration
Year:1906
Size:14.00" x 12.00"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Published as the cover of "Collier's Magazine," March 31, 1906