Talk:Jessie Willcox Smith

Johnmccarthyyy

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I am a student at the College of Staten Island and I am working on creating a more in depth page on Ms. Smith. Here are 10 sources I plan on using to help me:
Found on Her Wikipedia page already:
1) Nudelman, Edward D. Jesse Willcox Smith: American Illustrator. Gretna, LA, Pelican Publishing, 1990.
2) Nudelman, Edward D., ed. The Jesse Willcox Smith Mother Goose: A Careful and Full Selection of the Rhymes. Gretna, LA, Pelican Publishing, 1991.
Both works go into her life and her artwork. Useful information is found in them as Nudelman is on of the only people to create an in depth work on Smith.
3) http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/smith_bio.html
4) https://secureapps.libraries.psu.edu/PACFTB/bios/biography.cfm?AuthorID=7356
5) http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/jwsmith.htm
6) http://serenitystitchworks.com/art-and-design-information/artist-biography/jessie-willcox-smith-her-life-and-legacy/
These are websites that go into great detail on Smith's life, even more so than the information on her wikipedia page currently.
7) Jessie Willcox Smith Hardcover by S. Michael Schnessel
8) Jessie Willcox Smith by Ruth S. Freeman
These are two books written about Smith's life, used as references in her biography. 9) "The Book Buyer 24" Jessie Willcox Smith by Harris Morris
10) Jessie Willcox Smith by Jessie Willcox Smith
These two are articles used for her biography, featured in magazines.

11) A book a found that has extensive information on Jessie Willcox Smith is "American Book and MAgazine Illustrators to 1920". After skimming a few pages it is a very helpful and reliable source that will help in my better understanding of her life.
12) Another book that I have requested is "The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love." It details the lives of Smith, and two other women in which she was extremely close with. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnmccarthyyy (talk • contribs) 06:58, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
13) Women Illustrators of the Golden Age of American Illustration, Helen Goodman, Woman's Art Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 1987), pp. 13-22


I will be utilizing these sources and begin the writing process later on in the week. If anyone happens to have any useful information I could use it would be most helpful. I have posted in a few places seeing if info is available from any outside sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnmccarthyyy (talk • contribs) 16:14, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Peer Review

There is a lot of relevant and interesting information. I would add a little more about his biography. There are a wide variety of illustrated works on Jessie Willcox Smith which is awesome! Ag715 (talk) 17:50, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

2nd Peer Review

Overall your page looks really well done. Your informational box on the right hand side seems well filled with important information and you also have a gallery which is eye catching and informational. I also feel that you have a lot of information, so your page is well rounded in general. You seem to have a lot of text but i'm sure that you have even more sources to contribute to the information that you have already included. Jfgx4 (talk) 02:33, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

"creating all the covers from 1915 to 1933"

"She had an ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, including the long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and creating all the covers from 1915 to 1933."

Neither 'willcox' nor 'wilcox' appears on either target page. Did she create all of the covers for GH magazine (220 or so if it was monthly thruout her time), or did GH publish a series of Mother Goose books?

--P64 (talk) 23:39, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

P64 Here's the content from the article Over the next several years she continued to create illustrations for magazines, including a series of Mother Goose illustrations printed in Good Housekeeping which were made in black and white until mid-1914 when they were printed in color. Her illustrations were reproduced in the book The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose by Dodd, Mead, and Company. The book that reflected her continued theme of mother and child in a realistic portrayal was a commercial success. Biographer Edward D. Nudelman wrote, "The cover illustration for this book, showing two children nestled beneath the wings of Mother Goose, is one of Smith's most pleasing and warm images. The serenity portrayed in the posture and expression of the children, along with the material concern of Mother Goose, gives evidence of the genius of Smith." From this and the following page

That was just the Mother Goose illustrations. This is the text for the Good Housekeeping covers 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. The magazine said of her, "Certainly no other artist is so fitted to understand us, and to make for us pictures so truly an index to what we are as a magazine are striving for. The holding up to our readers of the highest ideals of the American home, the home with that certain sweet wholesomeness one associates with a sunny living-room—and children." See this page

The links are to the articles about Good Housekeeping and Mother Goose, as a reference. They don't necessarily have to have all the information from every article that links to it. But it wouldn't hurt, particularly for the Mother Goose article to mention the illustrations for Good Housekeeping that were later made into a book.

I hope I've answered your question.—CaroleHenson (talk) 04:15, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

I just realized the intro should have said December 1917 to 1933 and made that correction.—CaroleHenson (talk) 04:18, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

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