Lot 62: Jessie Willcox Smith (American, 1863-1935)

13-1/2" x 15-1/4"board "A Girl with a Cat" ("Learning"). Charcoal, watercolor/gouache and oil on illustration board, ca. 1932, signed along the lower right, framed under glass in a gold leaf carved wood frame overall 17-1/8" x 18-3/4". Provenance: collection of the artist, by descent in the family to Catharine Willcox Augustine, to the current owner. Accompanied by a photocopy of a loan agreement for exhibition "The Studios at Cogslea", February 20-March 28, 1976, The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington. Reproduced as the cover from "Good Housekeeping", September 1932.