Sarah Stilwell Weber cover illustration for "Collier's Weekly" (1914): rare beautifully frame antique

IMAGE TITLE: The Flower Girl     Sara Stilwell Weber     Collier’s - The National Weekly     May 9, 1914 Issue IMAGE INFORMATION     Image Size: H 15.00” x W 11.00”     Matted & Framed:  H 22.00” x W 18.00”     Framed Price: $300.00       Packaging and shipping approximately $25.00  In 1902, SS received a commission from Century Magazine to illustrate Josephine Daskin's poem, "Christmas Hymn of Children." The request was for an image conveying the mood of the poem and a graphic to embellish the text. Readers of Collier’s June issue did not know they were viewing an artistic transformation. In the halftone B&W lithograph that appears in this magazine, the artist has dropped the wooden form that defined her work in 1898. In its place, she is exploring the inner life of her subjects. This was, of course, what Pyle had encouraged her to do. The following year she proved she had completed the transformation of her art and mastered Pyle’s approach. She did this in a pictorial essay