This is a watercolor painting created By Florence Nosworthy for the cover of the May 1927 edition of Hearth and Home Magazine. It is titled "Arbor Day", and is a typical example of the illustrations of children that Ms. Nosworthy created. This painting is a subtle reminder of a time before the Great Depression, when life was simple.
Florence Pearl England Nosworthy was born in 1872 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She studied with Edmund Tarbell and Frank W. Benson at the Boston Museum School of Fine art, as well as with Kenyon Cox and George Barse at the Art Students League in New York. Ms. Nosworthy was a member of the Copley Society; Southern FA. In 1934, she exhibited her work at the Salons of America. Her illustrations include Great Musicians, Miss Theodora, Bunny Brown Books by Laura Lee Hope, Tommy Tinkers Books, Betty of Wye, and Land of Play (1911). In addition, she illustrated many covers for women's and children's magazines, as well as calendars and postcards. Florence Nosworthy passed away in 1936 in Hampton, CT.
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