Artist:
Jessie Willcox Smith
(American, 1863 - 1935)
Goldilocks and the Three Bowls
Medium: Mixed media on illustration board
Date: ca. 1900
Dimensions:
21 1/2 × 10 3/4 in. (54.6 × 27.3 cm)
Accession number: 75.3
Label Copy:
Some of Howard Pyle’s students, primarily the women, branched off to specialize in children’s book illustration. After working several years as a kindergarten teacher in the early 1880s, Jessie Willcox Smith studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute. Goldilocks and the Three Bowls contains essential elements of this familiar story. Children often note one discrepancy in the image: there is steam rising from the medium-sized bowl. In the story Goldilocks complained that this bowl's porridge was too cold.
Some of Howard Pyle’s students, primarily the women, branched off to specialize in children’s book illustration. After working several years as a kindergarten teacher in the early 1880s, Jessie Willcox Smith studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute. Goldilocks and the Three Bowls contains essential elements of this familiar story. Children often note one discrepancy in the image: there is steam rising from the medium-sized bowl. In the story Goldilocks complained that this bowl's porridge was too cold.
Curatorial RemarksWomen artists found success as illustrators in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Jessie Willcox Smith gained popularity for her illustrations of children. After working several years as a kindergarten teacher in the early 1880s, Smith studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and under Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute.
Goldilocks and the Three Bowls contains essential elements of this familiar story. Children often note one discrepancy in the image: there is steam rising from the medium-sized bowl; in the story Goldilocks complained that this bowl's porridge was too cold. It is one of three Jessie Willcox Smith made of this classic fairy tale. Five years later the images reappeared in an advertising calendar for Swift’s Premium Soap.
Goldilocks and the Three Bowls contains essential elements of this familiar story. Children often note one discrepancy in the image: there is steam rising from the medium-sized bowl; in the story Goldilocks complained that this bowl's porridge was too cold. It is one of three Jessie Willcox Smith made of this classic fairy tale. Five years later the images reappeared in an advertising calendar for Swift’s Premium Soap.
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