Jessie Willcox Smith Figurative Paintings
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
A Game of Checkers, Collier's Magazine Cover
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
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Early 1900s Jessie Willcox Smith Figurative Paintings
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Mixed Media, Board
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 Figurative Paintings
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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 Figurative Paintings
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Mixed Media, Board
"The Story Hour" Illustration for Harper's Bazar
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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 ...
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1910s Jessie Willcox Smith Figurative Paintings
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Oil, 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 Figurative Paintings
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Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Good Housekeeping cover. Christmas: Child Praying
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator, Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The acc...
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1910s American Impressionist Jessie Willcox Smith Figurative Paintings
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Mixed Media
The Little Land
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Mixed Media on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Illustration from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic poetry volume, 'A Chil...
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Early 1900s Jessie Willcox Smith Figurative Paintings
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Twas The Night Before Christmas
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
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1910s Jessie Willcox Smith Figurative Paintings
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Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Thanksgiving, Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
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Mid-20th Century Jessie Willcox Smith Figurative Paintings
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Board, Oil
Girl with Bloomers, Good Housekeeping Cover
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
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1920s Jessie Willcox Smith Figurative Paintings
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Board, Oil, Paint
The Daisy Wreath, cover for Harper's Bazar
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
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Early 1900s Jessie Willcox Smith Figurative Paintings
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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 Figurative Paintings
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Mixed Media
Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
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1920s Jessie Willcox Smith Figurative Paintings
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Paper, Oil, 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 Figurative Paintings
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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.