She also contributed over 450 separate illustrations in periodicals, including a color cover for Good Housekeeping on every issue for fifteen consecutive years. ... (29) In 1905, Smith made twelve full-page color illustrations for Robert Louis Stevenson's classic book of poems. ... Jessie Wilcox Smith was fond of classic boys and girl's stories and painted illustrations for such natable characters as David Copperfield, and Alice in Wonderland, she also fully illustrated the books Little Women (1915) and Heidi (1922). Hedid contained: "ten full-page colorplates, a color picto...

• Word Count: 1306
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

With its delicate veils of color, the sea and shore are conveyed through subdued horizontal bands of thinly applied paint and are seen through an obscuring screen of rain and mist. ... Its pale shades of blue, white, green and purple were perfectly juxtaposed to the ocean's muted blues, greens, and browns. ... I wanted to know who the faint character in the painting was and why he was alone on this beautiful beach. ...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

The faces are obscure and not individual, almost without a character; it is through the beauty of the bright colors and the excellent compositions that these portraits are outstanding. ... Actually his exact words were "Grande Style. " Best his words can explain it: "Nature is not all to be represented as it is, but as it ought to be, and might possibly have been; and it is required of and should be the aim of the artist-photographer to produce in the likeness the best possible character and finest expression of which that particular face or figure could ever have been capable (Reynolds). ... ...

• Word Count: 1570
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School