Lot 111
  • 111

Jessie Willcox Smith 1863-1935

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Jessie Willcox Smith
  • Then the Toddling Baby Boy (The Second Age)
  • signed Jessie Willcox Smith, l.r.; also inscribed Then the toddling baby boy/ with shining morning face creeping lik[sic] snail on the reverse.
  • mixed media on illustration board
  • 21 1/2 by 15 1/2 in.
  • (54.6 by 39.4 cm)
  • Executed circa 1908.

Provenance

Frances Stotesbury Mitchell (friend of the artist)
By descent in the family to the present owner

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Water Color Club, 7th Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition, 1909

Literature

The Ladies Home Journal, December 1908, illustrated
Carolyn Wells, The Seven Ages of Childhood, New York, 1909, illustrated in color opposite p. 10
Edward D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: A Biography, Gretna, Louisiana, 1989, p. 53
Edward D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: American Illustrator, Gretna, Louisiana, 1990, illustrated in color pl. 37

Condition

Good condition, repair to tear at upper left corner, cracks in paper at center top edge and right upper corner, some pin holes along edges, a small loss to center right edge; under UV: inpainting to address repaired tear and small loss, otherwise fine. Please note that this work is inscribed: Then the toddling baby boy/ with shining morning face creeping lik[sic] snail on the reverse. Please note the following additional exhibition history: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Water Color Club, 7th Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition, 1909.
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Catalogue Note

This work is the second of seven illustrations for Carolyn Wells' The Seven Ages of Childhood published by Moffat & Yard Company in 1909.