biografía de Elmer Boyd SMITH (1860-1943)

Lugar de nacimiento: St. John, New Brunswick, Canada

Lugar de defunción: Wilton, CT

Direcciones: Boston, MA, 1880s & 1890s; Wilton, CT (early 1900s-on)

Profesión: Painter, illustrator, writer

Estudios: Académie Julian, Paris with Boulanger and Lefebvre, 1881-84; also with H. Lefort

Exposiciones: Boston AC, 1885-86, 1896-98;PAFA Ann., 1885, 1898; Paris Salon, 1891 (etchings), 1892-94; Soc. Nat. Beaux-Arts, 1897, 1899

Asociaciones: Boston AC.

Comentarios: After spending the 1880s-90s in France (living in Paris and Auvers), he traveled through the West sketching and briefly lived in Kansas City where he was the first director, Kansas City AA and School of Design. By the early 1900s he settled in Connecticut. Author/illustrator: The Story of Noah's Ark," "The Chicken World," "Pocahontas and Captain John Smith," "The Story of Our Country."

Fuentes: WW33; P&H Samuels, 449-50; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, erroneously lists him as E. Smith Boyd (323) and correctly as E. Boyd Smith (391); Falk, Exh. Record Series.