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1858 West Chester, Pennsylvania - 1920 Bronxville, New York. Known for: Printmaking, illustration, society figure black and white drawing, portrait painting.
William Thomas Smedley, a free lance artist, was commissioned by the wealthiest of New York Society for their portraits and was an illustrator of books and major magazines. He received his formal... Read full biography
William Thomas Smedley, a free lance artist, was commissioned by the wealthiest of New York Society for their portraits and was an illustrator of books and major magazines. He received his formal training at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and then worked in New York City.... Read full biography
William Thomas Smedley, a free lance artist, was commissioned by the wealthiest of New York Society for their portraits and was an illustrator of books and major magazines. He received his formal training at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and then worked in New York City. Smedley began as a pen and ink artist for Harper and Brothers. He then went abroad to study with Jean Paul Laurens in Paris. In 1882 Smedley was commissioned to travel the Canadian West and create a... Read full biography
William Thomas Smedley, a free lance artist, was commissioned by the wealthiest of New York Society for their portraits and was an illustrator of books and major magazines. He received his formal training at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and then worked in New York City. Smedley began as a pen and ink artist for Harper and Brothers. He then went abroad to study with Jean Paul Laurens in Paris. In 1882 Smedley was commissioned to travel the Canadian West and create a series of illustrations for "Picturesque Canada". He also sketched while on his travels around the United States and then later the world in 1890. He was a contributor to major magazines such as, Scribner's, Harper's, and The Ladies Home Journal. He... Read full biography
William Thomas Smedley, a free lance artist, was commissioned by the wealthiest of New York Society for their portraits and was an illustrator of books and major magazines. He received his formal training at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and then worked in New York City. Smedley began as a pen and ink artist for Harper and Brothers. He then went abroad to study with Jean Paul Laurens in Paris. In 1882 Smedley was commissioned to travel the Canadian West and create a series of illustrations for "Picturesque Canada". He also sketched while on his travels around the United States and then later the world in 1890. He was a contributor to major magazines such as, Scribner's, Harper's, and The Ladies Home Journal. He worked in gouache, opaque watercolor for the later halftone engravings and oil for his portraits. Smedley was very active as a memb... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesPaintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004Dearinger, David B.672 pages (color)The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001Reed, Walt452 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesInventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
1996Burns, Sarah380 pagesAmerican Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996Shipp, Steve159 pagesFrederic Remington & Turn of the Century America
1995Nemerov, Alexander244 pages (color)Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
1993
(Exhibition catalog)Carr, Carolyn K408 pages (color)American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide
1991Gilbert Anne1,991 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings622 pagesThe Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)1,117 pagesArt Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990Gerdts, William H421 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)538 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesArtists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesThe Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984Reed, Walt and Roger355 pages (color)Treasury of American Pen-and-Ink Illustration 1881 to 1938
1982Johnson, Fridolf149 pagesAmerican Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981Newark Museum431 pages (color)Golden Age of American Illustration F R Gruger and His Circle
1978Perlman, Bennard B232 pages (color)Book of American Figure Painters (Art Experience, Late 19th Cen/ no. 11)
1977Weinberg, H Barbara (intro)240 pagesArt in the United States Capitol
1976Editor for Architect of the Capitol0 pages (color)The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesSmithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975Editor, Smithsonian0 pagesExhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
1973
(Exhibition catalog)Naylor, Maria1,075 pagesBiographical Sketches of American Artists
1972Earle, Helen L370 pagesThe Illustrator in America 1900-1960s
1966Reed, Walt272 pages (color)History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954Clark, Eliot296 pagesPortrait of the Old West
1952McCracken, Harold216 pages (color)American Book Illustrators Bibliographic Checklist of 123 Artists
1938Bolton, Theodore290 pagesThe Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America
1937Caffin, Charles H396 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesA History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932Hartmann, Sadekichi363 pagesCommemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
1925
(Exhibition catalog)National Academy of Design160 pagesMural Painting in America
1913Blashfield, Edwin Howland312 pagesThe National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Inst, Bulletin 70
1909Rathbun, Richard140 pagesAmerican Art From American Figure Painters
1886J B Lippincott Company100 pages