Jessie Willcox Smith Mixed Media
American, 1863-1935
But success as an illustrator wasn't immediate. She got a job in the production department of The Ladies Home Journal in 1889 and was still working there five years later when Howard Pyle began teaching illustration at Drexel Institute of Arts and Sciences. Smith was accepted as a pupil in his first class. At 31, she was only 10 years younger than her teacher and one of his oldest students. Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley soon joined her in the class, and the three became lifelong friends. Smith's first commission through Pyle was for an 1897 edition of Evangeline that she illustrated with Oakley. The two joined another Pyle student to rent a studio, and Green later joined them there. In 1901, the three shared the lease on an old inn outside of Philadelphia. That's the same year as the illustration above from "The Last of the Fairy Wands" in the December issue of Scribners Magazine. She produced two calendars with Green for 1902 that helped establish the careers of both women. The most important was "The Child," which showcased some of her most sensitive renditions of children to date. The images were collected into a book the following year. One of Smith's three images from that book is above at right. The magazines and books of the day voraciously consumed as much color work as possible. Pyle's students were some of the best-prepared new entrants into the illustration market, and Pyle's name gave them access to the magazines' pages.to
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Artist: Jessie Willcox Smith
The Young Scholar, Original cover for Good Housekeeping magazine, October 1922
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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 ...
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1920s Jessie Willcox Smith Mixed Media
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Paper, Mixed Media, Board
Woman with Child, Collier's Magazine Cover
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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,...
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Early 1900s Jessie Willcox Smith Mixed Media
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Mixed Media, Board
The Great Drawing- Room Was Haunted by a Tuneful Spirit That Came and Went
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
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1910s Jessie Willcox Smith Mixed Media
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Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Rhymes of Real Children
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
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Early 1900s Jessie Willcox Smith Mixed Media
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Mixed Media, Board
Bobs, King of the Fortunate Isle
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
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20th Century Jessie Willcox Smith Mixed Media
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The Pink Bonnet
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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 ...
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Early 1900s Jessie Willcox Smith Mixed Media
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Mixed Media, Board
Two Young Girls
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Contact for dimensions.
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20th Century Jessie Willcox Smith Mixed Media
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Mixed Media
As a Special Privilege the Zealot Bore it in Blazing
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1903
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Sight Size 24.25" x 15.50", Framed 31.35" x 22.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Scribner's Magazine story illustration, November 1911, 1903
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Early 1900s Jessie Willcox Smith Mixed Media
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Paper, Mixed Media
Pease-Porridge Hot, Pease-Porridge Cold
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
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1910s Jessie Willcox Smith Mixed Media
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Paper, Mixed Media, Board
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- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 10, 2025The most famous book that Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated is arguably Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. However, the American artist also produced illustrations for numerous other books. Among them were A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley, The Seven Ages of Childhood by Carolyn Wells, The Rhymes of Real Children by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and An Old-Fashioned Girl, also by Louisa May Alcott. Explore a range of Jessie Willcox Smith art on 1stDibs.
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