Lot Essay
This Simple Faith Has Made America Great was published as a poster advertisement by the Interchurch World Movement in 1919.
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This Simple Faith Has Made America Great
Details
Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935)
This Simple Faith Has Made America Great
signed 'Jessie Willcox Smith' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on board
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted by 1919.
This Simple Faith Has Made America Great
signed 'Jessie Willcox Smith' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on board
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted by 1919.
Provenance
Private collection.
By descent.
Thomas Frank Mankiewicz.
Estate of the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
By descent.
Thomas Frank Mankiewicz.
Estate of the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
(Possibly) Good Housekeeping, October, 1919, n.p., illustrated (as Mother and Child Praying in Front of Window).
S.M. Schnessel, Jessie Willcox Smith, New York, 1977, pp. 184, 220, no. 139, poster illustrated.
E.D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography, Gretna, Louisiana, 1989, pp. 162, 164, poster illustrated and (possibly) p. 180 (as Mother and Child Praying in Front of Window).
S.M. Schnessel, Jessie Willcox Smith, New York, 1977, pp. 184, 220, no. 139, poster illustrated.
E.D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography, Gretna, Louisiana, 1989, pp. 162, 164, poster illustrated and (possibly) p. 180 (as Mother and Child Praying in Front of Window).