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Lot 66
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Jessie Willcox Smith 1863 - 1935

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Jessie Willcox Smith
  • The Newborn (Realization; Beginning "Problems of Youth")
  • signed Jessie Willcox Smith (lower right)
  • mixed media on board
  • 15 by 16 inches
  • (38.1 by 40.6 cm)
  • Executed in 1928.

Provenance

Private Collection
American Illustrators Gallery, New York
Private Collection

Literature

Good Housekeeping, January 1928, illustrated in color on the cover
Edward D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography, Gretna, Louisiana, 1989, p. 149
Edward D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: American Illustrator, Gretna, Louisiana, 1990, illustrated pl. 16, p. 61