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Jessie Willcox Smith
(1863-1935) |
| Jessie Willcox
Smith received her early artistic training at the School of Design
for Women and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Thomas
Eakins before studying with
Howard Pyle
at the Drexel Institute. Like many of the women illustrators, Smith
specialized in domestic scenes, drawing and painting images of
mothers, babies and children. Although some of her most well-loved
illustrations were for books--Little Women, Heidi, A Book of Old
Stories and Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of
Verses--she also painted a great many illustrations for
magazines, including McClure’s and Cosmopolitan. Smith may be
best known for the nearly 200 covers she did for Good
Housekeeping between 1917 and 1934. |
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| Watering the Hollyhocks |
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Mixed media on
academy board, 22 inches x 20 inches |
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