Jessie Willcox Smith

Jessie Willcox Smith, born on September sixth, eighteen sixty-three, was a prominent American illustrator whose work flourished during the Golden Age of American illustration. Renowned for her exceptional talent, she earned the distinction of being one of the greatest pure illustrators of her time.

Throughout her illustrious career, Smith contributed to a myriad of books and magazines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her artistic prowess graced the pages of esteemed publications such as Century, Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal.

Notably, Smith maintained a long-standing relationship with Good Housekeeping, where she created a beloved series of Mother Goose illustrations and designed all the magazine's covers from December nineteen seventeen to nineteen thirty-three. Her portfolio includes over sixty illustrated books, featuring classics 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.