Brother and Sister Sledding Cover of Good Housekeeping February 1926 by Jessie Willcox Smith (American, 1863–1935)

Highlights

• Professionally framed in Gold and Silver speckled gilded wood with double mat (White and Grey/Blue) 
• Good Housekeeping February 1926 Cover Illustration
• Includes hanging hardware and is ready to hang

Details

• Image Size: 8 x 5 inches
• Paper Size: 9 x 8 inches
• Frame Size: 12 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 1 inches
• Medium: Paper
• Provenance: Centerville, DE Estate 

Comments

• The scene depicts two children, one dressed in yellow sitting on a sleigh, and another dressed in blue standing on the sleigh with rosy cheeks
• This is the cover of the February 1926 Good Housekeeping Magazine

Condition (Please see grading guide below)

• (I) Overall: Very Good
• (II) Content: Very Good (Some toning)
• (III) Frame: Very Good (Some scuffs and scratches; dust cover intact; Hanging hardware attached and ready to hang)

Artist Bio

 

• Jessie Willcox Smith was an American artist born in 1863 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  
• In 1884, she attended the School of Design for Women (which is now Moore College of Art & Design), and later 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. She left to take classes under Howard Pyle, first at Drexel and then at the Brandywine School. 
• 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, she created more than 184 covers for Good Housekeeping magazine from 1917 to 1933. 
• Smith also painted posters and portraits. Her twelve illustrations for Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies (1916) are well known.
• Smith illustrated over 60 children's books, including "Little Women" and "A Child's Garden of Verses". Her work, a hallmark of the Golden Age of American illustration, remains celebrated for its warmth, charm, and lasting influence.
• Smith's work has been exhibited at the Brandywine River Museum, the Delaware Art Museum, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the National Museum of American Illustration, the New York Public Library Digital Gallery, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the United States Library of Congress, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collection, and she was awarded the Mary Smith Prize.
• The Hall of Fame of the Society of Illustrators has inducted only 10 women since its inception in 1958. Smith was a renowned artist of American life. Smith's papers are deposited in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 

Grading Guide

Notes:

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Scale:

 

• Excellent: No damage or issues barely perceptible from close viewing distance and bright lighting conditions
• Very Good: Issues visible from close viewing distance and normal lighting conditions
• Good: Issues visible from normal viewing distance and lighting conditions but do NOT significantly detract from the overall look of the work
• Fair: Issues that are immediately apparent from normal viewing distance and lighting conditions AND significantly detract from the overall look of the work
• Poor: Severe condition issues that require repair and some may be beyond repair

 

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