One of the leading artists of the Charleston, South Carolina Renaissance, 1915 to 1940, Alice Smith was known for her landscape and genre paintings. She was a descendent of several distinguished... Read full biography
One of the leading artists of the Charleston, South Carolina Renaissance, 1915 to 1940, Alice Smith was known for her landscape and genre paintings. She was a descendent of several distinguished families. She was largely self taught and had neither enough money nor inclination to go to school. She... Read full biography
One of the leading artists of the Charleston, South Carolina Renaissance, 1915 to 1940, Alice Smith was known for her landscape and genre paintings. She was a descendent of several distinguished families. She was largely self taught and had neither enough money nor inclination to go to school. She learned by observing prints of the Japanese ukiyo-e-school, and did numerous woodblock prints using the same principles including the reflection of reverence for nature in her subject matter. New York... Read full biography
One of the leading artists of the Charleston, South Carolina Renaissance, 1915 to 1940, Alice Smith was known for her landscape and genre paintings. She was a descendent of several distinguished families. She was largely self taught and had neither enough money nor inclination to go to school. She learned by observing prints of the Japanese ukiyo-e-school, and did numerous woodblock prints using the same principles including the reflection of reverence for nature in her subject matter. New York artist Lovell Birge Harrison was her only real mentor, and their friendship began in 1908, when he and his wife first stayed in Charleston. They lodged at an inn where there was no studio space, and the friendship began when Smith offered him one of... Read full biography
One of the leading artists of the Charleston, South Carolina Renaissance, 1915 to 1940, Alice Smith was known for her landscape and genre paintings. She was a descendent of several distinguished families. She was largely self taught and had neither enough money nor inclination to go to school. She learned by observing prints of the Japanese ukiyo-e-school, and did numerous woodblock prints using the same principles including the reflection of reverence for nature in her subject matter. New York artist Lovell Birge Harrison was her only real mentor, and their friendship began in 1908, when he and his wife first stayed in Charleston. They lodged at an inn where there was no studio space, and the friendship began when Smith offered him one of the buildings behind her family home. He encouraged her inclination for soft-edged atmospheric lands... Read full biography
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith - Artist Info
About Alice Ravenel Huger Smith: Books
Books & Publications (30)
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Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
2018
Blackman, Lynne (Editor), The Johnson Collection
245 pages (color)
Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South
2015
Pollack, Deborah C.
400 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Modernism in the South: Mid-Twentieth Century Work in Morris (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Laufer, Marilyn (essay)
20 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Charleston Renaissance (Publ. of Charleston Renaissance Gallery)
1998
Severens, Martha R
216 pages (color)
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith: An Artist, a Place and a Time
1993
Severens, Martha R.
162 pages (color)
A Southern Collection
1992
Pennington, Estill Curtis
246 pages (color)
A Woman Rice Planter (Southern Classic Series)
1992
Pringle, Elizabeth W. Allston
446 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Japonisme Comes to America Japanese Impact on Graphics 1876-1925
1990
Meech, Julia/Gabriel Weisberg
256 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
Art and Artists of the South Robert P Coggins Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Chambers, Bruce W
149 pages (color)
American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984
Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
88 pages (color)
A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties: 30 Paintings in Water-Colour
1983
Smith, Alice R. Huger
97 pages (color)
Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Virginia Museum, Richmond
362 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue
1975
Chambers, Bruce W
127 pages (color)
The Dwelling Houses of Charleston, South Carolina
1974
Smith, Alice R. Huger
386 pages (color)
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith of Charleston, South Carolina: An Appreciation of the Occasion of Her Eightieth Birthday (Private Publication)
1956
Smith, Alice R. Huger
59 pages (color)
Catalogue: Annual Exhibition John H. Vanderpoel Art Association (By Contributors to the Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Klug, William L (Introductory Essay)
64 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index