Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935

found: Author's The book of the child, 1903:title page (with facsimiles of drawings in colour by Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green)

found: Read to me, Grandma, 1993:CIP t.p. (Jesse [sic] Willcox Smith, ill.) book t.p. (Jessie Willcox Smith) intro. (Jessie Willcox Smith)

found: 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))

found: 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")

found: 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

found: 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)