Jessie Willcox Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American illustrator
Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1863
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 03-May-1935
Profession: illustrator, painter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Jessie Willcox Smith
- Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration.
- She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators".
- She was a contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal.
- She had an ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, which included the long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and also the creation of all of the Good Housekeeping covers from December 1917 to 1933.
- Among the more than 60 books that Smith illustrated were Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.
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