This Simple Faith Has Made America Great, advertising poster for Interchurch World Movement
Date1919
Artist
Jessie Willcox Smith
(American painter and illustrator, 1863–1935)
Printer/Printmaker
Edwards & Deutsch, Lithographing Co.
(Chicago printing company, begun 1896)
Illustration CitationThis Simple Faith Has Made America Great, advertising poster for Interchurch World Movement
MediumCommerical lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 36 3/4 × 24 1/4 in. (93.3 × 61.6 cm)
sheet: 38 1/2 × 25 1/2 in. (97.8 × 64.8 cm)
sheet: 38 1/2 × 25 1/2 in. (97.8 × 64.8 cm)
Credit LineFound in collection
Object number1900-138
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextJessie Willcox Smith had an established career at The Ladies’ Home Journal when she joined Howard Pyle's classes in 1894 for further study. Famous by 1900 for her idealized images of children and domestic life in literary publications, on magazine covers, and in advertising campaigns, she kept her style largely unaltered until her death in 1935.This Madonna-like mother and praying child set against a calm night sky epitomize Willcox Smith’s widely-recognized style. The spiritual mood reflected the aim of the short-lived Interchurch World Movement (1919-1920) to unify American Protestant denominations in order to help bring about "peace...among the people of the earth.”
Louis John Rhead
1895 or earlier
