Jessie Willcox Smith

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American illustrator (1863-1935)

United States ArtistsLived 1863 to 1935 · aged 71

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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".

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Ivory Soap illustration, 1901

A Child's Garden of Verses, 1905

The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose, 1914

An illustration in The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley, c. 1916[41]

Awards 1

Mary Smith Prize

Connected to Jessie 4

Cecilia BeauxAlso won Mary Smith Prize

Susan Macdowell EakinsAlso won Mary Smith Prize

Emily SartainAlso won Mary Smith Prize

Elizabeth Shippen GreenAlso won Mary Smith Prize

Artists from United States 2

Jamie Wyeth50.8

Ed Roth50.8

About this person

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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United States