JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH (American, 1863-1935). Checkers, Scribner's magazine illustration, December, 1902. Oil and pastel ...

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JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH (American, 1863-1935)
Checkers, Scribner's magazine illustration, December, 1902
Oil and pastel on panel
24 x 16 in.
Signed upper left
This lovely piece was published in a special Christmas pictorial entitled A Mother's Days on page 690 of the December 1902 issue of Scribner's magazine.

Jessie Willcox Smith has long been recognized as an American master, and this illustration shows why she is to be so highly regarded. Her idealized portraits of children, always presented with an inscrutable subtext that makes them impossible to forget, are what made her famous, and this example is prime among those prized portraits.

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

More information about JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH. See also: Smith, Jessie Willcox, Jessie Willcox Smith Artist.



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