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1842 Edgehill, Pennsylvania - 1878 Pennsylvania. Known for: Chickens, landscape, still life.
Mary Russell Smith was born at Edgehill, close to Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. She was a true lover of nature and all the things of nature, wandering the fields and woods near her childhood home,... Read full biography
Mary Russell Smith was born at Edgehill, close to Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. She was a true lover of nature and all the things of nature, wandering the fields and woods near her childhood home, gathering objects that caught her eye. Smith had much influence to become an an artist because all in her... Read full biography
Mary Russell Smith was born at Edgehill, close to Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. She was a true lover of nature and all the things of nature, wandering the fields and woods near her childhood home, gathering objects that caught her eye. Smith had much influence to become an an artist because all in her family were painters. Her father, Russell, was a well-known landscapist, her mother a painter of flowers, and her brother Xanthus, a marine painter, was also well-known. She attended no art schools,... Read full biography
Mary Russell Smith was born at Edgehill, close to Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. She was a true lover of nature and all the things of nature, wandering the fields and woods near her childhood home, gathering objects that caught her eye. Smith had much influence to become an an artist because all in her family were painters. Her father, Russell, was a well-known landscapist, her mother a painter of flowers, and her brother Xanthus, a marine painter, was also well-known. She attended no art schools, and started to paint at age fourteen, when she was taught by her mother. When she died in 1878 at age 36, her father summed up the inspiration nature held for Smith, and her love of it, in "A Brief Sketch of the Life of Mary Smith, the Painter." "Such... Read full biography
Mary Russell Smith was born at Edgehill, close to Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. She was a true lover of nature and all the things of nature, wandering the fields and woods near her childhood home, gathering objects that caught her eye. Smith had much influence to become an an artist because all in her family were painters. Her father, Russell, was a well-known landscapist, her mother a painter of flowers, and her brother Xanthus, a marine painter, was also well-known. She attended no art schools, and started to paint at age fourteen, when she was taught by her mother. When she died in 1878 at age 36, her father summed up the inspiration nature held for Smith, and her love of it, in "A Brief Sketch of the Life of Mary Smith, the Painter." "Such habits early in life no doubt laid the foundation of that strong love of nature that was more a passion than a predilection, and remain... Read full biography
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About Mary Russell Smith: Keywords
Keywords (12)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Barnyard Fowl, Chickens, Poultry, Roosters
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Still Life
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Chronology
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Animal Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts