biografía de Albert SMITH (1896-1940)

Lugar de nacimiento: NYC

Direcciones: France (WWI, c.1918-19); NYC; Spain, Belgium & Paris, c.1920-26; NYC; Paris, c.1934-40

Profesión: Painter, etcher, teacher, graphic artist

Estudios: Ethical Culture Art School (scholarship), 1911; NAD, 1915-18, 1919-20; Acad. de Beaux Arts, Paris, 1920; Royal Acad., Belgium and privately with a Belgian etcher in Liège, 1923-24

Exposiciones: NAD, 1917 & 1919 (Sydham Medal), 1919 (Chaloner Prize), 1920; Tanner Art Lg., Wash., DC, 1922 (gold medal for etching); S. Indp. A., 1922; NYPL, 1928 (solo); AIC, 1927; Ethical Culture Art School, 1928; Smith. Inst., 1929; Harmon Fnd., 1928-31 (bronze medal, 1929),1933, 1935-36, traveling exhib., 1935-36; Tanner Lg. Exhib., Wash., DC, 1931 (gold); BMFA, 1932; NJ State Mus., 1935; Veterans Exhib., Paris, 1932; New Jersey State Mus., 1935; AAPL, Paris, 1935-38; Texas Centennial, 1936; Paris, 1938; BM, 1939; American Negro Expo, Chicago, 1940; South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, 1945.

Asociaciones: NA

Obra: Harmon Fnd.; NYPL; National Archives; Fisk Univ., Nashville, TN; Hampton (VA) Univ. Mus.; Mus. of the Nat. Center of Afro-Am. Artists, Boston; Schomburg Center, NYC

Comentarios: Author: On Negro Exhibitions" (letter to the editor), New York Amsterdam News Jan. 4, 1928.

Fuentes: WW33; Cederholm, Afro-American Artists; Richard J. Powell, Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century (London: Thames and Hudson, 1997), 55-56; add'l info. courtesy Jacqueline Francis, New Haven, CT, who also cites news clippings from L.S. Alexander Gumby Papers, Amistad Research Center, New Orleans; as well as archival material available at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (letters in Arthur S. Schomburg Papers)."