Jesse Willcox Smith, World War I Poster
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Title: Have You a Red Cross Service Flag?
Artist: Jesse Willcox Smith (1863-1935).
Off-set lithograph, 1918.
Copyright, The American Red Cross.
Printed by Forbes, Boston.
Poster size 27 15/16 x 20 7/8" (71 x 53 cm).
A U.S. propaganda poster from World War I.
Jessie Willcox Smith was an American illustrator and one of the Red Rose Girls. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she studied briefly at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women before transferring to the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts. She continued her studies at Drexel Institute afterward, where she forged a lifelong friendship with Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley. The three women collaborated on numerous projects throughout their lives, the first of which was shared between Smith and Oakley - the 1897 publication of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "Evangeline". Somewhere in the early 1900s, the three women leased the Red Rose Inn Estate in Villanova, Pennsylvania, where they lived and worked together for many years. The location, coupled with each of their highly successful careers, led to them being referred to as the "Red Rose Girls."
An important woman artist during the Golden Age of American illustration, Smith produced work for a variety of newspaper and magazine firms and illustrated over 60 books during her lifetime. Some of the firms she worked for included Century Magazine, Harper's Weekly, St. Nicholas Magazine, Scribner's Magazine and Good Housekeeping, the latter of which had a long-running Mother Goose series Smith worked on.
Artist: Jesse Willcox Smith (1863-1935).
Off-set lithograph, 1918.
Copyright, The American Red Cross.
Printed by Forbes, Boston.
Poster size 27 15/16 x 20 7/8" (71 x 53 cm).
A U.S. propaganda poster from World War I.
Jessie Willcox Smith was an American illustrator and one of the Red Rose Girls. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she studied briefly at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women before transferring to the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts. She continued her studies at Drexel Institute afterward, where she forged a lifelong friendship with Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley. The three women collaborated on numerous projects throughout their lives, the first of which was shared between Smith and Oakley - the 1897 publication of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "Evangeline". Somewhere in the early 1900s, the three women leased the Red Rose Inn Estate in Villanova, Pennsylvania, where they lived and worked together for many years. The location, coupled with each of their highly successful careers, led to them being referred to as the "Red Rose Girls."
An important woman artist during the Golden Age of American illustration, Smith produced work for a variety of newspaper and magazine firms and illustrated over 60 books during her lifetime. Some of the firms she worked for included Century Magazine, Harper's Weekly, St. Nicholas Magazine, Scribner's Magazine and Good Housekeeping, the latter of which had a long-running Mother Goose series Smith worked on.
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Condition: Fair condition, vertical repaired tear halfway through image and a faint water stain in the lower left.
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