Alice Sargent Johnson

Alice Sargent Johnson (1882, Staten Island, New York City - 1951, Clifton, Staten Island) was a commercial artist and illustrator. She graduated from the Art Students League in 1900. Alice was the daughter of Mary Doubleday (niece of Abner Doubleday) and Edward Sargent.

Additionally, she created watercolor illustrations for magazines and books. She illustrated for Harper's Bazaar, St. Nicholas Magazine."The best-known children's authors and illustrators contributed to St. Nicholas,", according to a 2002 review on children's literature[2]. Many children's classics were first serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine. Its first runaway hit was with Little Lord Fauntleroy. Louisa May Alcott's Jo's Boys was serialized in the magazine, and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

She illustrated some early Madison Avenue ad campaigns. One ad campaign was a Victorian coloring book included with each bag of Ceresota Flour made by Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company. Thousands of books given away as a promotion. A showing of her watercolors was made in 1986 at the Staten Island Museum in St. George.

Life Magazine -March 7, 1901 artwork drawings part of cover design

2neat.com/magazines/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2328

Ladies World Magazine June 1910 Front cover - watercolor of mother and young daughter magazineart.org/main.php/v/women's/ladiesworld/LadiesWorld1910-06.jpg.html

St. Nicholas Mary Mapes Dodge - Education - 1910 Verse Deborah Ege Olds 313 MASQUERADE, AT THE CHILDREN'S. Picture, drawn by Alice Sargent page 5o7 MELITTA. Verse. (Illustrated) Fannie W . Marshall 448 MR.

St. Nicholas, Volume 30, Part 2 - Page viii Mary Mapes Dodge - Education - 1903 (Illustrated by Alice Sargent page 1001 ) Ernest Ingersoll 1001 Word Jingles George //. Valentine 838 FRONTISPIECES. "The Gamekeeper's Daughter," by JM Gleeson,

...
Wikipedia