Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West Desert Caballeros Western Museum Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
2006McGarry, Susan Hallsten (Essay)
68 pages (color)
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Born 1929 St. Louis, Missouri. Known for: Sculptor-abstract female figure.
Known for her stoic portrayals of women, Shirley Thomson Smith creates sculpted figures that seem a combination of Indian, Mexican and African, silent and thoughtful, suggesting the strength and... Read full biography
Known for her stoic portrayals of women, Shirley Thomson Smith creates sculpted figures that seem a combination of Indian, Mexican and African, silent and thoughtful, suggesting the strength and endurance of humanity. She was deeply influenced by a move she and her husband made in 1953 from... Read full biography
Known for her stoic portrayals of women, Shirley Thomson Smith creates sculpted figures that seem a combination of Indian, Mexican and African, silent and thoughtful, suggesting the strength and endurance of humanity. She was deeply influenced by a move she and her husband made in 1953 from Oklahoma to Durango, Colorado. Traveling into the Southwest, she came into contact with Native Americans, especially Navajo women, whom she found fascinating. But it was about five years later, after a... Read full biography
Known for her stoic portrayals of women, Shirley Thomson Smith creates sculpted figures that seem a combination of Indian, Mexican and African, silent and thoughtful, suggesting the strength and endurance of humanity. She was deeply influenced by a move she and her husband made in 1953 from Oklahoma to Durango, Colorado. Traveling into the Southwest, she came into contact with Native Americans, especially Navajo women, whom she found fascinating. But it was about five years later, after a return move to Oklahoma, that she started to include them as subject matter. In 1980, she became a full-time sculptor, and in 1985 was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Western Art, only the fourth woman to have been admitted. She works with... Read full biography
Known for her stoic portrayals of women, Shirley Thomson Smith creates sculpted figures that seem a combination of Indian, Mexican and African, silent and thoughtful, suggesting the strength and endurance of humanity. She was deeply influenced by a move she and her husband made in 1953 from Oklahoma to Durango, Colorado. Traveling into the Southwest, she came into contact with Native Americans, especially Navajo women, whom she found fascinating. But it was about five years later, after a return move to Oklahoma, that she started to include them as subject matter. In 1980, she became a full-time sculptor, and in 1985 was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Western Art, only the fourth woman to have been admitted. She works with water-based clay, without armatures and without a model or preliminary sketch and photographs continuously while working. She has mold... Read full biography
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Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West Desert Caballeros Western Museum Exhibition
2006The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004McGowan, Alison C (Editor)1,512 pagesPrix de West 30th Anniversary 2003
2003
(Exhibition catalog)Schroeder, Charles (Intro)204 pages (color)Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists 2001 Edition
2001Editors, Art of the West88 pages (color)An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West
1998Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick405 pagesMountain Oyster 28th Annual Contemporary Western Art Show
1997
(Exhibition catalog)Mountain Oyster Club56 pagesPrix de West Invitational 1997
1997
(Exhibition catalog)National Cowboy Hall of Fame194 pages (color)Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997Southwest Art128 pagesPrix de West Invitational 1996
1996
(Exhibition catalog)National Cowboy Hall of Fame192 pages (color)North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller612 pagesAmerican Women Artists & the West Show and Sale Tucson Museum of Art
1994
(Exhibition catalog)Carman, Shari; Robert Yassin32 pages (color)The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993Southwest Art126 pagesNational Academy of Western Art Twentieth Annual Exhibition
1992
(Exhibition catalog)National Cowboy Hall of Fame158 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesNational Academy of Western Art Fourteenth Annual Exhibition
1986
(Exhibition catalog)National Academy Western Art112 pages (color)National Academy of Western Art Twelfth Annual Exhibition
1984
(Exhibition catalog)National Academy Western Art98 pages (color)Women Artists in America II
1975Collins, Jim L.430 pages