My readers will recognize by now
that one of my favorite artists is Jessie Wilcox Smith. As a sentimentalist I
find that her drawings apt fit many of my more whimsical blogs. And of course
since most of them use children it adds an extra little poignancy to the
article (I fondly hope).
She was born in 1863 and passed
away in 1935 and remarkably did not discover her artistic talent until she was
20! She is considered one of the
greatest illustrators in the Golden Age of Illustration when magazines were at
their height and ongoing stories were regularly featured in the magazines. She
graced every printed cover of Good Housekeeping from December 1917 through
April 1933, becoming the artist with the longest run of illustrated magazine
covers. She created a total of 184 illustrations of family scenes for the
magazine.
She was an exceptional artist / illustrator and I am
grateful that her work is in the public domain!
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