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Edward Gregory Smith BIOGRAPHY
1880 Grand Rapids, Michigan - 1961 Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Known for: Landscape-coastals, nocturnes.
The following was submitted July 2002 by Jennifer Hazen whose sources are the artist's daughter and grandson, Mary Smith Symonds and Gregory Smith Symonds. Gregory Smith was one of the younger group... Read full biography
The following was submitted July 2002 by Jennifer Hazen whose sources are the artist's daughter and grandson, Mary Smith Symonds and Gregory Smith Symonds. Gregory Smith was one of the younger group of artists who came to Old Lyme,. Connecticut when the summer art colony was commanding the... Read full biography
The following was submitted July 2002 by Jennifer Hazen whose sources are the artist's daughter and grandson, Mary Smith Symonds and Gregory Smith Symonds. Gregory Smith was one of the younger group of artists who came to Old Lyme,. Connecticut when the summer art colony was commanding the attention of artists and art patrons throughout the east. It was his friend and fellow painter, Will Howe Foote, who persuaded Smith to move from his home town of Grand Rapids, Michigan to Old Lyme in 1910.... Read full biography
The following was submitted July 2002 by Jennifer Hazen whose sources are the artist's daughter and grandson, Mary Smith Symonds and Gregory Smith Symonds. Gregory Smith was one of the younger group of artists who came to Old Lyme,. Connecticut when the summer art colony was commanding the attention of artists and art patrons throughout the east. It was his friend and fellow painter, Will Howe Foote, who persuaded Smith to move from his home town of Grand Rapids, Michigan to Old Lyme in 1910. Smith was thirty at the time, had studied for a couple of years at the Chicago Art Institute, and was anxious to meet many of the well-known artists who stayed in Old Lyme. As a young man, Smith looked up to many of the older artists such as Childe... Read full biography
The following was submitted July 2002 by Jennifer Hazen whose sources are the artist's daughter and grandson, Mary Smith Symonds and Gregory Smith Symonds. Gregory Smith was one of the younger group of artists who came to Old Lyme,. Connecticut when the summer art colony was commanding the attention of artists and art patrons throughout the east. It was his friend and fellow painter, Will Howe Foote, who persuaded Smith to move from his home town of Grand Rapids, Michigan to Old Lyme in 1910. Smith was thirty at the time, had studied for a couple of years at the Chicago Art Institute, and was anxious to meet many of the well-known artists who stayed in Old Lyme. As a young man, Smith looked up to many of the older artists such as Childe Hassam and Willard Metcalf, who were both twenty years his senior. Smith was very fond of telling a story about one of... Read full biography
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The following was submitted July 2002 by Jennifer Hazen whose sources are the artist's daughter and grandson, Mary Smith Symonds and Gregory Smith Symonds.
Gregory Smith was one of the younger group of artists who came to Old Lyme,
Connecticut when the summer art colony was commanding the attention of artists and art patrons throughout the east. It was his friend and fellow painter, Will Howe Foote, who persuaded Smith to move from his home town of Grand Rapids, Michigan to Old Lyme in 1910. Smith was thirty at the time, had studied for a couple of years at the Chicago Art Institute, and was anxious to meet many of the well-known artists who stayed in Old Lyme.
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