Biography from Pierce Galleries, Inc.:
| Walter Granville Smith (American, 1870-1938)
Walter Granville Smith was born in Bellport, New York on January 26, 1870 and he died in Granville, New York in 1938.
He was a painter and illustrator who studied with W. Satterlee, C. Beckwith and Willard Metcalf at the Arts Student League in New York City and in Paris at the Academie Julian. He was a member of the American Water Color Society, Salmagundi Club, Society of Painters (NY), Allied Artists of America, an Associate (1908) and an Academician (1915) of the National Academy of Design, NYC; the Greenwich Society of Artists; National Arts Club; American Guild of Artists; and the Grand Central Art Galleries, NYC. He won awards at the National Academy in 1900, 1908, 1927, 1929, 1933; a medal at the Charleston Exposition (1902); prizes at the American Water Color Society in 1905, 1916; Worcester Art Museum (1906); Art Institute, Chicago (1907); Buenos Aires Exposition (1910), Salmagundi Club (1911, 1913, 1918, 1922, 1925, 1928.
Smith’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Butler Art Institute, Toledo Museum (Ohio), Salmagundi Club (NYC), the National Academy of Design (NYC), Lotos Club, the Fencers Club, NYC, and the Philadelphia Art Club and elsewhere.
He is renown for his charming genre scenes of young children and women involved in pleasurable activities along the shore, in parks and along city streets. During his lifetime, his realistic, well-painted figures and genres were illustrations for Harper’s Magazine, Scribner’s and other leading publications of the late 19th century. |
Biography from AskART:
| Walter Granville Smith was born in Belfort, New York and studied at the Art Students' League prior to going to Europe. He returned to American and established his studio in New York City. Following the academic route he won his first prize at the National Academy in 1900, a gold medal there in 1908 and was elected an academician in 1915. A frequent participant in both national and international exhibitions both here and abroad, Granville Smith's pictures won prizes in such diverse places as Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, and Charleston, South Carolina.
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R.H. Love Galleries, Inc. |
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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