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 - Artist Info
About Jessie Willcox Smith: Books
Books & Publications (42)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
JC Leyendecker American Imagist
2008
Cutler, Laurence S. & Judy Goffman Cutler & the National Museum of Illustration
256 pages (color)
Flights into Fantasy: Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection of Children's Illustration Brandywine River Museum and Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Daniel, Kendra; Virginia O'Hara (Essays
80 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists
2004
Cutler, Laurence S, Judy Goffman Cutler & The National Museum of American Illustrators
448 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love
2000
Carter, Alice A
21 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists
1994
Bailey, Brooke
207 pages
The Golden Age Of Children's Book Illustration (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Dalby, Richard
143 pages (color)
American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide
1991
Gilbert Anne
1,991 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Jessie Willcox Smith: American Illustrator
1990
Nudelman, Edward
144 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography
1989
Nudelman, Edward
184 pages (color)
Wake Up, America World War I and the American Poster
1988
Rawls, Walton
288 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Cream of Wheat Advertising Art: The Nabisco Brands Collection
1986
Stivers, Dave
143 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
The Artist and the Child Exhibition of Children's Books (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Boston Public Library
96 pages
Posters/World War l & World War ll George C Marshall Research Foundation
1979
Crawford, Anthony R
128 pages
Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Hills, Patricia
194 pages (color)
Jessie Wilcox Smith
1977
Schnessel, S Michael
220 pages (color)
Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Marcus, George H. (Editor)
166 pages (color)
The Pennsylvania Academy And Its Women (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Pennsylvania Academy
48 pages
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle
80 pages
The Brandywine Tradition
1968
Pitz, Henry C
252 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America 1900-1960s
1966
Reed, Walt
272 pages (color)
American Book Illustrators Bibliographic Checklist of 123 Artists
1938
Bolton, Theodore
290 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit
1915
Walter, John; Pedro Lemos
112 pages
Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art (Exhibition catalog)