HENRY PEMBER SMITH
American 1854 – 1907
VILLAGE HOUSES ALONG A RIVER
Watercolor on Paper
Signed and Dated ‘Henry P. Smith 1883’ (lower left)
Museums: 14, including Yale University Art Gallery, The Newark
Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum of Art,
Norton Museum of Art
Books: 29
Periodicals (2): December 1996, American Artist Magazine; August 2005 American Art Review
Image size: 9½” x 7 ¼”
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HENRY PEMBER SMITH
1854-1907
Birth place: Waterford, CT
Addresses: NYC (1877-c.1901); Asbury Park, NJ (c.1901-on)
Profession: Landscape painter
Studied: apparently self-taught.
Exhibited: National Academy of Design, 1877-96, 1899, 1901, 1906; Brooklyn Arts Academy, 1878-85, 1892; Boston Arts Club, 1880-90;
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual., 1881, 1888; Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago 1893 Columbian Exhibition; Vose Galleries-Boston
Member: American Watercolor Society; Artists Fund Society.
Comments: Best known for his tightly-rendered pastoral landscapes of New England, often featuring a country cottage by a stream or pond.
However, he also he painted shoreline scenes from New Jersey to Newport (RI) to Cape Ann (MA) to Maine. He traveled widely, also painting
along the England"s Cornish coast, Brittany and Normandy, and Venice during the 1880s.
Sources: WW06; Falk, Exh. Record Series.
This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American Art" , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.
Museums:
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Yale University Art Gallery
George Walter Vincent Smith Museum
Museum of Fine Arts-Springfield
The Newark Museum
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Hudson River Museum
Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
Robert Hull Fleming Museum
Chrysler Museum of Art
Butler Institute of American Art
Norton Museum of Art
The Mattatuck Museum of Mattatuck Historical Society
Francine Clark Art Institute
Books:
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Ed), The Artists Bluebook
Vose Galleries of Boston, Vose Art Notes, A Guide for Collectors, Volume XI
Davenport, Ray, Davenport's Art Reference
McCann, Chris, Master Pieces - The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum
Carr, Carolyn K, * Revisiting the White City - American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
Ed: Hartford Boiler Collection, Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections
Falk, Peter Hastings, The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
Halsby, Julian, Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters
Conrads, Martha C American Paintings and Sculpture, Sterling & Francine Clark Institute
Falk, Peter Hastings, Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-19. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Falk, Peter Hastings, Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram
Zellman, Michael David, 300 Years of American Art
Opitz, Glenn B, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary American Painters, Sculptors et al
Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Ar, t Artists Active 1898-1947
Soria, Regina, Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1914)
Stebbins, Theodore/G. Gorokhoff, American Paintings at Yale
Kennedy Galleries, A Kennedy Galleries Selection of American Art for Public and Private Collectors
Newark Museum, American Art in the Newark Museum, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Maurice Sternberg, Galleries, The American Perspective
Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy, American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923)
Naylor, Maria, Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design
Chapellier Galleries, American Art Selections, Turn of the Century
Mattatuck Historical Society, The Connecticut Artists Collection
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge, Index of Artists, International Biographical
Periodicals:
December 1996, American Artist Magazine, Salmagundi Club Turns 125
August 2005 American Art Review, American Landscapes from the Malzah
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