A Boy in a Tree - Jessie Willcox Smith Art Print 05045 and illustration

and illustration

Renowned as a children's book illustrator

While there is limited information available about her personal life and career

her pose was based on a real woman model

This simple yet spookily effective scene has remained one of our most beloved Halloween images for years

A Boy in a Tree - Jessie Willcox Smith Art Print 05045 and illustrationIn Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless work, A Child's Garden of Verses, a charming verse unfolds: "Up into the cherry tree, Who should climb but little me? I held the trunk with both my hands, And looked abroad on foreign lands." Within the pages of its 1905 edition, Jessie Willcox Smith's artistry flourishes, with vivid full color illustrations like this one that accompanies the poem Foreign Lands, along with a collection of simpler black and white