Jessie Willcox Smith Art

This large oil painting depicting a sweet moment of maternal bonding was published as an interior illustration for Harper’s Bazar in May 1910. Jessie Willcox Smith gained renown for ...

Story illustration for the book In the Closed Room by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published by McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1904. The published caption reads: "I'm going to play ...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 19.00" x 16.00", Framed 26.00" x 23.00" Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover, July 1928. Jessie Wilcox Smith...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 22.00" x 16.00", Framed 31.00" x 25.00" Two Little Girls. It looks as though they are walking to school with their books in one hand and holding hands with the other. Good Housekeeping Magazine cover, September 1924 Smith, Jessie Willcox:Smith is known mostly for her whimsical illustrations of children. She illustrated "A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson and numerous magazine covers.. American painter and illustrator, 1863-1935 Jessie Wilcox Smith...

Medium: Mixed Media on Board Signature: Unsigned Sight Size 28.00" x 19.75", Framed 39.00" x 30.75" Little kid looking out the window. Exhibitions: Allentown Art Museum, At the Edge: Art of the Fantastic (June 3- September 9, 2013) Literature: Aileen C. Higgins, Dream Blocks, New York, 1908, illustrated in color as frontispieceMichael S. Schnessel, Jessie Willcox Smith, Toronto, Canada, 1977, pp. 45, 94Edward D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography, Gretna, Louisiana, 1989, A. 26, illustrated in color p. 50 Edward D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: American Illustrator, Gretna, Louisiana, 1990, pp. 34, 48Alice A. Carter, The Red Rose Girls...

Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Signature: Unsigned This piece was an advertisement for Lowney's Crest Chocolates. Edward Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith expert and biographer describes Merry Christmas: Two Children Before the Fireplace, “A wonderful mixed media painting by Jessie Willcox Smith, published as an advertisement for Lowney's Crest Chocolates, reminiscent of her paintings for Twas the Night...

Story illustration for Louisa May Alcott's classic story Little Women featuring Beth March playing the piano in Mr. Laurence's grand house. The full...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 15.50" x 15.00", Framed 23.00" x 22.00" signed Jessie Willcox Smith (lower right); signed Jessie Willcox Smith and titl...

Original 1918 Red Cross Poster - "Have YOU a Red Cross Service Flag?" - Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, Linen Backed. Restored horizontal fold mark and restored small tears along the bottom. This poster is, after all, more than 107 years old. Own a Piece of History! 1918 "Have You a Red Cross Service Flag?" Poster ✨ Step back into history with this original 1918 Red Cross poster. It is a poignant and touching piece of WWI-era Americana, beautifully preserving a time of nationwide unity and heartfelt service. Illustrated by the celebrated artist Jessie Willcox Smith, this lithograph captures the tender moment of a child hanging a Red Cross service flag in the window—a symbol of hope, sacrifice, and pride in supporting humanitarian efforts during World War I. The poster radiates warmth, with Smith’s signature style of innocence and emotional depth shining through in the delicate depiction of the boy, the adorned window, and the serene winter backdrop. The vibrant red and white cross emblem on the service flag is a focal point of the artwork, inspiring viewers to reflect on the values of compassion and generosity that the Red Cross championed during this period. As a significant historical artifact and a beautiful piece of early 20th-century American illustration, this poster would be an exceptional addition to any serious collection of WWI memorabilia...

“Now as Julia sat there drinking tea from the quaintest of old-fashioned china cups, and eating slices of thin bread and butter, and cakes that almost melted in her mouth, she could ...

Date: 1903 Medium: Mixed Media on Board Sight Size 18.00" x 15.75", Framed 24.50" x 22.25" Signature: Signed Lower Right Betty Sage, Rhymes of Real Children, New York, 1903, illustr...

Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Board Sight Size 18.00" x 17.00", Framed 25.00" x 24.00" "Twas The Night Before Christmas" by Clemen...

Signed Lower Left, Titled Lower Center

Original cover for Good Housekeeping magazine, published March 1931

"'I choose this,' said Polly, holding up a long white kid glove, shrunken and yellow with time, but looking as if it had a history." Illustration for An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa...

Medium: Mixed Media on Board Sight Size 18.50" x 18.00", Framed 21.50" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Original cover for Harper's Bazar, published June 1910 One of America's greatest illustrators, Jessie Willcox Smith attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and studied under Thomas Eakins in Philadelphia, graduating in 1888. A year later, she found work in the production department of the Ladies' Home Journal, for five years. After that, she continued her art education with classes under Howard Pyle, first at Drexel and then at the Brandywine School. Smith then established her reputation, illustrating stories and articles for Century, Collier's Weekly, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's,Scribner's, and the Ladies' Home Journal. Smith was closely associated with the artists Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley, who also studied with Pyle, and the group became known as "the Red Rose Girls...

Date: 1907 Medium: Mixed Media on Board Dimensions: 18.25" x 15.25" Signature: Signed Lower Right Provenance- From the Helen Hay Whitney estate (the author of The Bed-Time Book for ...

Signed Lower Right by Artist July 1927 Cover of Good Housekeeping

Approximate Date: 1902 Medium: Charcoal, Watercolor and Oil on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 23.50" x 15.50", Framed 31.50" x 23.00" Bed-Time, published...

Medium: Mixed Media on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Annie W. Franchot, Bobs, King of the Fortunate Isle, New York, 1928, frontispiece illustration LITERATURE: Edward D. Nu...

This work is one of six paintings from the series “A Mother’s Days,” published in Scribner’s Monthly Magazine, December 1902 Exhibitions: New York, The Dahesh Museum of Art, Stories...

Portrait of a little 2 1/2-year-old boy holding a toy sailboat in a seaside landscape. Inscribed on the stretcher: Peter Krumbhaar Age 2-1/2 Painting by J.W. Smith June-Sept. 1926 a...

Original advertisement for Cream of Wheat, published 1909. Literature Dave Stivers, Nabisco Brands Collection of Cream of Wheat Advertising...

Famed female illustrator, Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The acc...

Signed Lower Right by Artist Titled on the reverse: May I Have the Pleasure Good Housekeeping cover, November 1926 As Jessie Willcox Smith biographer S. Michael Schnessel has a...

Two illustrations from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (New York: Scribner's, 1905), for III: "To Auntie", Page 116 Two charming line illustrations by Smith from...

Original cover for Good Housekeeping, published October 1922. The Young Scholar, reproduced on the cover of the October 1922 issue of Good Housekeeping, demonstrates Jessie Willcox ...

Medium: Mixed media on board Dimensions: 19.00" x 15.50" Signed: Lower Left Collier's magazine cover, January 1906 and appears as a color plate in Thirty Favorite Paintings by Leadi...

Signed Lower Right

America's greatest female illustrator draws a heartwarming picture of a mother putting to bed her child. Motherly love towards their children is the artist's most iconic theme. This ...

Story illustration for Reminiscences of The Old Chest of Drawers by Sarah Cauffman Sill (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1900), page 10 Medium: Charcoal on Paper Signature: Signed Lo...

Medium: Ink and Watercolor on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right Contact for exact dimensions. Inscribed Signed for-/Thomas Oakley/CHRISTMAS-1919 (lower right) - Charles Kingsle...

Medium: Oil and Gold Paint on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 19.00" x 16.00" Oval, Framed 24.00" x 21.00" April. 1920 Good Houseke...

Illustration for “Kitchen Sketches” by Elizabeth Hale Gilman for Scribner’s, published May 1903. Rendered in charcoal with accents of pastel orange and yellow, the illustrations fo...

Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 20.00" x 15.00", Framed 30.00" x 24.50" Jessie Wilcox Smith never married, but t...

Medium: Mixed Media Signature: Signed Lower Right Contact for dimensions.

Medium: Oil on Paper Laid Down to Board Signature: Signed Lower Left This is an illustration for the book by Samual McChord Crothers, The Children of Dickens, originally published in 1925. Bob Cratchit first appeared in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol as the victimized clerk of cold-hearted Ebenezer Scrooge. Timothy Cratchit, also known as Tiny Tim...

Date: 1904 Medium: Mixed Media on Board Sight Size 14.75" x 14.75", Framed 23.00" x 23.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of Colliers magazine,...

Medium: Charcoal on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right

Signed with initials lower right The painting is one of the 4 illustrations that JWS did for the book “Evangeline: Tale of Acadia”, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...

Date: 1912 Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight Size 18.50" x 12.50", Framed 27.50" x 21.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left July 1912 Woman's Home Companion Magazine Cover

Three young children bobbing for apples. Jessie Wilcox Smith never married, but throughout her long career, specialized in drawing a...

"He surveyed himself with satisfaction." Illustration for An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1902 by Little, Brown, & Company Smith, Jessie Willcox: Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1863 to an affluent family, Jessie Willcox Smith attended private schools in that city, as well as in Cincinnati, Ohio. At age 20, she went to work as a kindergarten teacher but soon learned that she could not handle the stress of dealing with small children. On a suggestion from one of her cousins, Smith took art classes, first at the School of Design for Women, then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Later, Smith went on to study at Drexel University. It was at that school she became good friends with two other artists, Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley. The trio dubbed themselves "The Red Rose Girls...

Medium: Gouache and Mixed Media on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Illustration from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic poetry volume, 'A Chil...

Original illustration for an article entitled "While the Mother Works: A Look at the Day Nurseries of New York" by Lillie Hamilton French, published in The Century Magazine...

Signature: Signed with the Artist's Initials J.W.S. (Lower Right) Medium: Ink and Gouache on Paperboard

Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right Line drawing illustration from Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses" (New York: Scribner's, 1905). A char...

Medium: Ink and Watercolor on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right Contact for exact dimensions. Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies, New York, 1916, illustrated Edward D. Nudelman,...

Medium: Ink and Watercolor on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right Contact for exact dimensions. LITERATURE: Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies, New York, 1916, illustrated Edwar...

Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Signature: Signed Lower Right This mixed media art by Jesssie Willcox Smith, entitled “Pease-Porridge Hot, Pease-Porridge Cold,” was executed in 19...