JESSIE WILCOX SMITH
American illustrator (1863-1935)
Biography:
Jessie Wilcox Smith was born in Philadelphia in 1863. After studying at School of Design for Women, Academy of Pennsylvanie and in Howard Pyle's workshop, she specialized in representing the domestic universe of mothers and children. She is the author of more than 200 front pages in the magazine Good Housekeeping.
Works illustrated by jessie Wilcox Smith:
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Brown, 1915, 8 illustrations.
Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses, Scribner, 1905, 10 illustrations.
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, Houghton, 1910.
Johanna Spyri, Heidi, Mac Kay, 1922, 11 colour illustrations and 23 black and white illustrations.