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Jessie Willcox Smith 1863 - 1935
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description
- Jessie Willcox Smith
- The Bed-Time Book
- watercolor and charcoal on board
- image: 18 by 15 1/4 inches (45.7 by 38.7 cm)
- board: 22 by 19 1/4 inches (55.9 by 48.9 cm)
- Executed in 1907.
Provenance
Sale: Illustration House, New York, May 9, 1998, lot 38
Acquired by the present owners at the above sale
Acquired by the present owners at the above sale
Exhibited
New York, The Society of Illustrators, The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love, July-August 2001, no. 73
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love, November 2003-May 2004
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum; Amherst, Massachusettts, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Flights into Fantasy: The Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection of Children's Illustration, September 2007-October 2008, pp. 36, 80, illustrated in color p. 6
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love, November 2003-May 2004
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum; Amherst, Massachusettts, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Flights into Fantasy: The Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection of Children's Illustration, September 2007-October 2008, pp. 36, 80, illustrated in color p. 6
Literature
Helen Hay Whitney, The Bed-Time Book, New York, 1907, illustrated in color on the cover
Edward D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography, Gretna, Louisiana, 1989, p. 48, illustrated in color
Edward D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography, Gretna, Louisiana, 1989, p. 48, illustrated in color