A biography of Jessie Willcox Smith, one of 101 biographies of illustrators.

Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) was among the most gifted of the students of Howard Pyle, and she took to heart his precept of (loosely put) studying a particular subject thoroughly, and conversely, painting what one knows best in order to bring the subject alive. Quite early, she settled on exploring the universe of the child, and did so with great sensitivity and tenderness over the first 30 ...