"He looked up at the broad yellow moon
and thought that she looked at him."
LC-USZC4-1381
LC-USZ62-53873
Prints & Photographs Division
(1)
An exhibition in the
Swann Gallery of Caricature
and Cartoon
Library of Congress
June 10 - September 18, 1999
Overview - Enter Exhibition - Acknowledgments
The large, lavish drawings Jessie Willcox Smith produced as color plates for The Water-Babies in 1916 are among her most loved and admired works. She apparently thought highly of them as well because upon her death in 1935 she bequeathed all twelve to the Cabinet of American Illustration, a special collection of almost four thousand original drawings by the nation's most influential illustrators, preserved within the Prints and Photographs Division. Her works evoking the innocence of youth and demonstrating the artistry of illustrated books are among the Library's great graphic treasures.
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