American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 217
dering about the artist whose clever pencil has portrayedthe vivid picture-stories that haunt the brain. From her earliest childhood, Mrs. Jessie Curtis Shepherd (nee Curtis) evinced a talent fordrawing. As a child her love for picture-books was absorbing. She says, They seemed aliveto me; and I… … The Empty Birds Nest. Drawn by Mrs, Shepherd. Born in the city of New York, where her parents were also born and educated, JessieCurtis began her artistic career at the New York School of Design for Women when aboutfourteen .years of age. At that time the School of Design had few good teachers and…
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