Jessie Willcox Smith Child Praying - Robert Funk Fine Art
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art
Christmas: Praying Child, Good Housekeeping Cover - Golden Age of Illustration
Creator: Jessie Willcox Smith - The Holy Bible / Biblical
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art
16.25 -14.25 inches - Mixed media on board
Retail: $ 136,000 Plus Shipping
Description
Famed female illustrator, Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The accomplished Jessie Willcox Smith studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and later, with illustrators Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley, she also attended illustrator Howard Pyle's school in Wilmington, Delaware. Her superb work was featured in many national magazines, such as Ladies' Home Journal, Collier's, Harper's, Scribner's, Good Housekeeping, and others- Work is elegantly framed - Published: Cover Good Housekeeping, December 1920. Good Housekeeping was the magazine most closely associated with Jessie Willcox Smith's iconic work
