July/August
Date1904
Artist
Jessie Willcox Smith
(American painter and illustrator, 1863–1935)
Illustration CitationThe Child—A Calendar (Philadelphia: Charles W. Beck, 1904)
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 20 1/16 × 13 13/16 in. (51 × 35.1 cm)
mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1977
Object number1977-301.5
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextJessie Willcox Smith and fellow illustrator Elizabeth Shippen Green collaborated on The Child, A Calendar, with each artist creating several pages. For Smith's July/August scene, a girl tends to her doll, play a board game, while smaller images at the sides portray a child enjoying each month outdoors. The images reflect the early twentieth century recognition of solitary play as a necessary part of childhood.
Jessie Willcox Smith
1919
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