Jessie Willcox Smith
American · 1863–1935 · Painter, Printmaker
Jessie Willcox Smith was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to… (Wikipedia)
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The Pink BonnetSloans & Kenyon · $52,500≈ £33,553≈ €45,976Sign up to see
- Bed-Time, published in [Scribner's Monthly Magazine], December 1902Brunk Auctions · $9,000≈ £5,835≈ €7,987Sign up to see
- Northwest Passage, In PortBrunk Auctions · $3,250≈ £2,611≈ €3,007Sign up to see
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Jessie Willcox Smith was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. She had an ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, which included a long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and also the creation of all the Good Housekeeping covers from December 1917 to 1933. Smith illustrated over sixty books, including notable works like Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.
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Also known as Jessie Wilcox Smith
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