Jessie Willcox Smith | |
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| Born | September 6, 1863 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | May 3, 1935 (aged 71) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Known for | Illustrations |
| Movement | The Golden Age of Illustration |
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| Elected | Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame, 1992 |
| Years active | 1880–1935 |
Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration.[2] She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators".[3] 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 of the Good Housekeeping covers from December 1917 to 1933. Among the more than 60 books that Smith illustrated were 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.
- ^ "Biography of Jessie Willcox Smith". Penn State University Libraries. Archived from the original on July 20, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
- ^ Gloria Nixon (February 1, 2015). Rag Darlings: Dolls From the Feedsack Era. C&T Publishing. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-61745-385-4.
- ^ Noah Fleisher (November 12, 2015). Collecting Children's Literature: Books, Artwork, Values. F+W Media, Inc. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-4402-4529-9. Archived from the original on April 21, 2017.