| LC control no. | n 80005675 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935 |
| Variant(s) | Smith, Jesse Wilcox, 1863-1935 Smith, Jesse Willcox, 1863-1935 Smith, Jessie Wilcox, 1863-1935 Wilcox Smith, Jessie, 1863-1935 Willcox Smith, Jesse, 1863-1935 Willcox Smith, Jessie, 1863-1935 |
| See also | Teacher: Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 Corporate body: Red Rose Girls (Group of artists) |
| Located | Villanova (Pa.) Mount Airy (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Birth date | 1863-09-06 |
| Death date | 1935-05-03 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Field of activity | Painting Portrait painting Commercial art llustration of books Magazine illustration Children's literature--Illustrations Children in art |
| Affiliation | Philadelphia School of Design for Women Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry Red Rose Girls (Group of artists) Society of Illustrators (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Commercial artists Painters Portrait painters Illustrators |
| Found in | Author's The book of the child, 1903: title page (with facsimiles of drawings in colour by Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green) Read to me, Grandma, 1993: CIP t.p. (Jesse [sic] Willcox Smith, ill.) book t.p. (Jessie Willcox Smith) intro. (Jessie Willcox Smith) Wikipedia, June 27, 2020 (Jessie Willcox Smith, born September 6, 1863, Philadelphia, died May 3, 1935, Philadelphia; American illustrator; contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; attended Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1885-1888); in 1894, enrolled in classes taught by Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute, where she met Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley; later the 3 women shared a studio in Philadelphia; for 4 years beginning in the early 1900s, they lived and worked together in the Red Rose Inn in Villanova, Pa., and became known as the "Red Rose Girls"; when they lost the lease on the inn, a farmhouse was remodeled for them in West Mount Airy, Philadelphia, as a shared home and workplace, which they named "Cogslea" after the initials of their surnames and that of Smith's roommate, Henrietta Cozens; after 1911, when the Cogslea group broke up, Smith had a house and studio named "Cogshill" built nearby, where she lived with Cozens; besides book and magazine illustrations, she turned to portrait painting later in her career; the second woman to be inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Society of Illustrators (1991)) Philadelphia inquirer, May 4, 1935, via Newspapers.com, June 27, 2020 (headline: "Jessie W. Smith dies; noted portrait artist"; "Miss Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrator and portrait painter, died at her home 'Cogshill,' St. George's Road, Chestnut Hill, yesterday morning. She was born in Philadelphia ... [She was] well known as a painter of children and an interpreter of child life") Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), June 27, 2020 (Smith, Jessie Willcox (American painter and illustrator, 1863-1935); reference from Willcox Smith, Jessie; artist, illustrator, painter; gender: female; born: Philadelphia, died: New York City [sic]; ID: 500116901) <https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500116901> OCLC, June 27, 2020 (access points include: Smith, Jesse Wilcox; Smith, Jesse Willcox; Smith, Jessie Wilcox; Smith, Jessie Willcox; Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1965; Wilcox Smith, Jessie; Willcox Smith, Jesse; Willcox Smith, Jessie) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 93019384 |
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