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All Jessie Willcox Smith 's Paintings
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ID Image  Painting (From A to Z)       Details 
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Gathering Greens, Jessie Willcox Smith
  		 Gathering Greens   nn08
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Oh, don't hurt me. cried Tom. I only want to look at you; you are so handsome, Jessie Willcox Smith
  		 Oh, don't hurt me. cried Tom. I only want to look at you; you are so handsome   "Oh, don't hurt me! cried Tom. I only want to look at you; you are so handsome" A charcoal, watercolor, and oil painting by Jessie Willcox Smith. Published in The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916, p. 140. cjr
Jessie Willcox Smith
American Golden Age Illustrator, 1863-1935 was an American illustrator famous for her work in magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and for her illustrations for children's books. Born in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Smith studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins in Philadelphia, graduating in 1888. A year later, she started working in the production department of the Ladies Home Journal, for five years. She left to take classes under Howard Pyle, first at Drexel and then at the Brandywine School. Jessie Willcox Smith, Illustration for The Water-Babies (1916)She was a prolific contributor to books and magazines during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrating stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's Weekly, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. Smith may be most well known for her covers on Good Housekeeping, which she painted from December 1917 through March 1933. She also painted posters and portraits. Her twelve illustrations for Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies (1916) are also well known. On Smith's death, she bequeathed the original works to the Library of Congress' "Cabinet of American Illustration" collection. Smith was close friends with the artists Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley,



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