Jessie Willcox Smith

The Blue Pump

1927

Medium: Mixed Media Signature: Signed Lower Right Contact for dimensions.

Original cover for Good Housekeeping magazine, published March 1931

Story illustration for the book In the Closed Room by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published by McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1904. The published caption reads: "I'm going to play ...

Three young children bobbing for apples. Jessie Wilcox Smith never married, but throughout her long career, specialized in drawing a...

This quiet and lovely depiction of a mother and child reading an alphabet book is charming for good reason -- it is a close variant of a well-known circa 1905 painting entitled "The ...

Antique Watercolor on Paper of Two Children with Arts & Crafts Gilt Wood Frame, Signed By A. Percy C1910 Measures - 17"H x 20.5"W x 1.75"D An early 20th-century watercolor painting b...

Norman Rockwell Artist's Daughter Encore Edition prints, approved by Norman Rockwell Numbered AP lower left with blindstamp. Gold embossed signature lower right Image size: 68.5 x 5...

A Charming 1920s American Illustration Study Based on the Artwork of Norman Rockwell by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Walter Burt Adams (Am. 1903-1990). A well executed early figurative work by the artist, depicting a bemusing scene of the artist's mother and brother, as she patiently stands beside him while he dresses unenthusiastically for an impending violin lesson. Artwork size: 24 x 20 inches, oil on canvas, accompanied with the original frame (framed size: 29 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches). Signed "Walter Burt Adams" and dated 1923 lower right. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Walter Burt Adams was a dedicated painter of the American Scene and a singular personality among his peers in the Chicago Modern Art community. His no-nonsense manner, devotion to his craft and sardonic sense of humor characterize a man whose paintings capture life in and around Chicago between the early 1920s and the late 1970s. Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin just after the turn of the last century, Walter Burt Adams spent his childhood in Fargo, North Dakota and began his artistic education there through a correspondence cartooning class as a boy. After finishing high school in Fargo, Adams moved to Chicago in 1922 in order to enroll at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago. Adams’ instruction at the school with artists such as George Oberteuffer, Frederick V. Poole, Charles Wilimovsky...