biografia di Frederick Carl SMITH (1868-1955)

Birth place: Cincinnati, OH

Death place: Pasadena, CA

Addresses: Washington, DC, c.1900; NYC, 1900; Pasadena, CA, c.1917 and after

Profession: Portrait painter

Studied: Cincinnati Art Acad.; Académie Julian, Paris with Bouguereau, Ferrier, Constant.

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1897, 1899; NAD, 1900; Soc. of Washington Artists; Washington WCC; AAS, 1902; LACMA; Corcoran Gal annual, 1908; S. Indp. A., 1917; Southwest Mus., Los Angeles, 1921 (prize).

Member: Calif. AC; Soc. of Washington Artists; Washington WC Club; Paris American AA; Laguna Beach AA; Pasadena SA.

Work: Pub. Lib., Minneapolis, MN; Continental Hall, Wash., DC; Allegheny (PA) Observatory; State Capitol, Denver; State Capitol, Columbus, OH

Comments: Studied and painted in Paris for 7 years, marrying Isabel E. Smith (see entry) in 1895 in London and returning to the U.S. c.1900.

Sources: WW53; WW47; Marlor, Soc. Indp. Artists, listed as F(rithjof) Carl Smith; McMahan, Artists of Washington, DC, 200; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 391 (as Carl F. Smith).