Wuanita Smith

Illustration from Oh, Virginia! (1920)

Wuanita Smith (1866 - 1959) was an American painter, printmaker, and illustrator of children's books. Her work is held in the National Portrait Gallery and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Biography

Smith was born in Philadelphia. She studied with Howard Pyle and exhibited at Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry along with other women artists. She belonged to The Plastic Club, an arts organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her aquatint picture "Approaching Storm" is at the National Portrait Gallery. Her woodcut print "Skating" is part of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art collection.

She died in Philadelphia in 1959.

Gallery

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  Illustration from A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony (1915)
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  Illustration from A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony (1915)

Bibliography

• 'The Four Corners Abroad by Amy Ella Blanchard, part of the Four Corners series, illustrated by Wuanita Smith (G.W. Jacobs, 1909)
• At least three books from the Admiral's Granddaughter Series by Elizabeth Lincoln Gould
  • The Admiral's Granddaughter (1907), illustrated by Wuanita Smith
  • The Admiral's Little Housekeeper (1910), illustrated by Wuanita Smith, about the Beaumont family Christmas
  • The Admiral's Little Secretary (1911), illustrated by Wuanita Smith
• The Little Runaways At Home (1912) by Alice Turner Curtis
• A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony (1915)
• Oh, Virginia! (1920) by Helen Sherman Griffith
• Brothers Grimm and other stories (1922)
• Grandpa's Little Girls and Their Friends (1925) by Alice Turner Curtis