Christmas Card – "Silent Night" – Good Housekeeping, December 1924 – 5x7" with Envelope – 1 / 10 / 50 / 100 – by Jessie Willcox Smith Christian Mom my Mother Mary

my Mother Mary

Their earlier cards had still used engraving lines to draw the picture and were colored in with lithography

one of Europe's great portrait artists

dining room or kitchen

We tend to think of blood in terms of modern chemistry

Christmas Card – "Silent Night" – Good Housekeeping, December 1924 – 5x7" with Envelope – 1 / 10 / 50 / 100 – by Jessie Willcox Smith Christian Mom my Mother MaryGood Housekeeping, the quintessential American magazine for housewives, would on some occasions in the early years of the 20th Century publish Catholic themed covers. To our knowledge, they were all painted by Jessie Wilcox Smith. They were all Madonna and Child paintings. In this one, we have Mary kneeling by Jesus. Smith uses a deep Marian blue which any Catholic would recognize. Protestant versions of this scene always include Joseph because,