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W. Eugene Smith (1918 to 1978)
W. Eugene Smith discovered his skills as a photojournalist while taking pictures of sporting events for his high school. His work was regularly published in the “Wichita Eagle.” After a brief stint in college, Smith moved to New York where he hoped to build a career as a photojournalist. Almost immediately his photographs were published in “Newsweek,” “Life,” “Parade,” “Collier’s,” and other photographically-illustrated magazines. He produced an enormous [...] Click here to continue reading.
Mary Russell Smith (1842 to 1878)
Born at Rockhill, Pennsylvania, on September 25, 1842, Mary Russell Smith, a member of the famous Smith family of painters, was destined to be an artist from an early age. Indeed she completed her first oil painting when only aged 14 and was encouraged by her parents, Russell Smith and Mary Priscilla Wilson Smith, to become a professional artist.
Mary’s other childhood passion was raising poultry and this [...] Click here to continue reading.
Joseph B. Smith (1798-1876) & William S. Smith (1821- ?)
A master of nautical ship portraits, Joseph B. Smith was born in New York City in 1798, and trained for the printing trade. His son and partner in many paintings, William S., was born in 1821.
Joseph’s earliest known work was a lithograph of his printing depicting the clipper ship Mechanic’s Own. His earliest known painting was the 1849 portrait of the Steamer Hartford [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935)
Jessie Smith was among the most gifted of the students of Howard Pyle, and she took to heart his precept of (loosely put) studying a particular subject thoroughly, and conversely, painting what one knows best in order to bring the subject alive. Quite early, she settled on exploring the universe of the child, and did so with great sensitivity and tenderness over the first 30 years of this century.
Her [...] Click here to continue reading.
Henry Pember Smith (1854-1907)
Henry Pember Smith was likely a self-taught artist who was born in Waterford, Connecticut and had set up a studio in New York by 1877. He exhibited regularly at the NAD. Just after the turn of the 20th century, he moved to Asbury Park, where he died in 1907.
Frank Vining Smith (1879 to 1967)
Frank Smith’s marine paintings are both emotive and precisely accurate; the expressive images reflect the artist’s lifelong love of sailing and the sea as well as a vast array of knowledge and desire to portray the actual vessels in the highest detail.
A New England native, Smith attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before ultimately setting up a studio in Hingham, Massachusetts. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1876. She had the schooling of a gentlewoman of that day, which included classes in drawing and painting at the Carolina Art Association. However, she did not visit great galleries nor attend a university; essentially she was self-taught as an artist. At first, her artistic talent was directed at designing dance programs, tally and place cards, fans and glove [...] Click here to continue reading.
James David Smillie (1833-1909)
The oldest son of American engraver James Smillie (1807 to 1885), James David Smillie was the brother to noted painter George Henry Smillie (1840 to 1921), and was known in his own right for his landscapes such as Lake Placid and the Adirondack Mountains from Whiteface. The two brothers worked and traveled extensively together in their painting endeavors in the Catskills, Adirondacks and Hudson River regions and traveled out West [...] Click here to continue reading.
Eric Sloane (American, 1905 to 1985)
Born in New York City as Everard Jean Hinrichs, Sloane ran away from home at the age of fourteen and worked his way across the country by painting signs. Along the way he became avidly interested in the American farmer and architectural icons of the American Colonial era such as covered bridges, barns and homes. He settled in Taos, New Mexico in 1926 and worked in an artist [...] Click here to continue reading.
Edward R. Sitzman (1874-1949)
Edward Sitzman was active particularly in Indiana, as a landscape and still life painter, as well as a graphics artist. He studied with Duveneck and H. Farney and at the Cincinnati Art Academy, in London and in Munich. He was a member of Indiana A.C., the Indianapolis A.A. and the Chicago Gallery Association. His work can be seen today at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and in many Indiana public libraries [...] Click here to continue reading.
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