About Hope Smith

  • Biography

    Hope Smith was born on May 10, 1879 in Providence, Rhode Island. She was a painter of oil and watercolor--noted for rural and urban scenes of Providence ; late paintings, marine scenes of Maine; genre, and landscape. She studied under Mary Wheeler, Wheeler School ; Rhode Island School of Design (enrolled in painting classes 1905, 1906) ; under C. H. Woodbury, Ogunquit, ME ; W. M. Chase, ASL ; Académie Julian, Paris ; Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris. She was a member of the Providence Art Club and the South County Art Association.
    Her work is located at:
    Providence Art Club:
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    1. Oil painting, "Hancock Point"
    2. Oil painting, "Winter"

    Rhode Island Historical Society:
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