Biography from Nichols Taos Fine Art Gallery:
| Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1932, Ted Smuskiewicz received his formal art education at the American Academy of Art in Chicago where he earned an AAS and A BFA degree. For the past forty-five years in the field of fine art, he has been actively involved as a painter, teacher and as an author. Exhibiting throughout the country, his work is in both private and public collections. Recently retired from teaching, he was a faculty member of the American Academy of Art since 1979, where he taught oil painting and chaired the fine art department.
As an author, his first book, Creative Painting of Everyday Subjects was published by Watson-Guptill in 1986. His second book, Oil Painting Step by Step was published by North Light Books in 1992 and again in 1997. He was a contributing author by North Light Books from 1994 to 1995. He has also written for American Artist and The Artist’s magazines.
Recent National Exhibits have been the 2005 Oil Painters of America and the 2005 American Impressionist Society juried shows. Past Exhibits of his paintings were at the Gilcrease Museum American Art Exhibits in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the Albuquerque Museum Art Exhibits in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was invited to show his work in the Denver Rotary Club’s Artist of America Exhibit. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art 1987 through the present. |
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