| A minister from California, he was part of a joke that Boston art gallery owner, Robert C. Vose, played to reveal the superficial aspects of modern art. Although Smith's wife was a traditional portrait painter, he had no art background when he and Vose agreed to a plot that Smith should be introduced to the Boston cultural scene in 1925 as the "Founder and Supreme Master of the Disumbrationist School of Painting." Smith had been angered because his wife's work had been described as "old hat," an (showing 500 of 947 characters). |
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