100 Objects from Century of the Child

Jessie M. King. “The Frog Prince” nursery wall panel. 1910 The design of children’s toys and books was an area in which many women affiliated with the Arts and Crafts movement excelled, chief among them King, who attended the Glasgow School of Art, where she later taught bookbinding, embroidery, and ceramic decoration. Her childlike vision and understated technical brilliance in many mediums was widely publicized in the new international arts magazines started in the 1890s and early 1900s. By using fairy-tale iconography throughout her work, King encouraged children to enter and share her make-believe world. Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

Jessie M. King. “The Frog Prince” nursery wall panel. 1910

The design of children’s toys and books was an area in which many women affiliated with the Arts and Crafts movement excelled, chief among them King, who attended the Glasgow School of Art, where she later taught bookbinding, embroidery, and ceramic decoration. Her childlike vision and understated technical brilliance in many mediums was widely publicized in the new international arts magazines started in the 1890s and early 1900s. By using fairy-tale iconography throughout her work, King encouraged children to enter and share her make-believe world.

Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

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Get your daily dose of design from the MoMA exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000. During each of the 100 days of the exhibition we will showcase an object featured in the show.

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