American Lanscape, Oil on Canvas Painting by Walter Granville
Smith, [ painter, etcher, illustrator], b.1870, South Granville,
NY / d. 1938. Dimensions are 23 1/2" high(inside) by 35 1/2" wide
(inside)
Addresses: NYC/Bellport, NY.
Studied: ASL with W. Satterlee, C. Beckwith, W. Metcalf;
also in Europe. Member: ANA, 1908; NA, 1915; AWCS;
SC, 1918; SPNY; Allied AA; Greenwich SA; NAC; AFA; Grand Central
AG.>,1900 (prize), 1908 (gold), 1927 (prize), 1929 (prize), 1933
(prize); Charleston Expo, 1902(medal); PAFA, 1904-08, 1910,
1912-17, 1922-28; AWCS, 1905 (prize), 1916 (prize); Worcester,
1906 (prize); CI, 1907(prize); Corcoran Gal., 1907-10, 1919, 1930,
1935, 1937; Buenos Aires Expo, 1910 (prize); SC, 1911 (prize),
1913 (prize), 1918 (prize), 1922 (prize), 1925 (medal), 1928
(prize); NAC, 1925 (medal), 1936 (prize); Olympic Exhib.,
Amsterdam, 1928 (medal). Work: Smithsonian;
Butler AI; TMA; SC; NAC; Lotus Club; Fencers Club NY; Phila. AC;
Fort Worth MA ; Horace Moses Memorial, Ticonderago, NY; Curtis
Inst. >th; The Ladies' Home Journal ; Century and other magazines.
His last name appears variously as Granville-Smith or Smith.
Sources: WW38(as Granville-Smith); WW33 (under
Smith); Falk, Exh. Record Series. "Who was who in
American Art 1564-1975 Vol.2" pg. 1348, and Vol. 3 pg 3093
