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Effie Anderson Smith (September 29, 1869 – April 21, 1955), also known as Mrs. A.Y. Smith, was an early
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painter of desert landscapes, many of
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and the
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Biography

Smith was born in the rural countryside near
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, in 1869.Mitre Press ''Principal Women of America'', p. 112 She grew up in Arkansas and served as a school teacher in
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until 1893, when she left Arkansas for New Mexico, and then Arizona. She studied with California Impressionists in Oakland (1904),Crocker Art Museum ''Artists in California, 1786–1940'', p. 1033 with May Bradford Shockley in San Francisco (1908), in Laguna Beach with Anna Althea Hills (1914) and also at the Stickney Memorial Art School in Pasadena with
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Progressive Arizona and the Great Southwest ''Mrs. A.Y. Smith, Arizona Artist'' November 1929, pp. 13, 33, 34 and Richard E. Miller (1915-16).University of Texas Press ''An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West'', p. 283 Her exhibitions include a show of her Southwest paintings in Corcoran Hall at
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beginning May 20, 1931. She lived for 56 years in southern Arizona, first in Benson (1895–96), then in
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(from 1896 to 1941) and later in
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(from 1941 to 1951) in Cochise County, and seasonally in Morenci in Greenlee County at the home of her son Lewis A. Smith. Smith moved to
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in 1951, and died there at the
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in 1955.Prescott Evening Courier "Death Claims Effie Smith", 22 April 1955 She was buried at the Mountain View Cemetery in Prescott. From January 11 to April 28, 2019, the Tucson Desert Art Museum presented a 150th birthday anniversary retrospective exhibit of E.A. Smith's landscapes with 46 of her canvases on display from her most prolific years (1926–1949), including four of her renowned Grand Canyon paintings. The largest permanent public display of E.A. Smith's paintings are on exhibit at the Douglas Historical Society, Douglas, Arizona.


Gallery

Image:Effie Anderson Newlyweds.jpg, E.A. Smith with husband Andrew Y. Smith, photographed in a San Francisco Railroad Studio Car photograph made around the time of their wedding (1895) Image:EA Smith behind the wheel circa 1900.jpg, E.A. Smith motoring near her desert home at Pearce, AZ in her Rambler Touring Car, circa 1907 Image:EA Smith Teaching.jpg, E.A. Smith with students in her Douglas, AZ studio (1940s)


References

* "Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture" www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net, Effie Anderson Smith (1869–1955) * "Mrs. A.Y. Smith, Arizona Artist" by Marian Compton, Progressive Arizona and the Great Southwest, Vol. 9, No. 5 (November 1929) * "Principal Women of America" (1932), Mitre Press, London. * "Arizona’s Forgotten Artist Mrs. A.Y. Smith" by O. Carroll Arnold, Cochise County Historical Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Fall 1989) * "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West" by P.& M.Y. Kovinick (1998), University of Texas Press, Austin. * "Artists in California, 1786–1940" by E.M. Hughes (2002), Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. * "The Artists Bluebook" by L.P. Dunbier (2005), AskART Publishing * "Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists" by Betsy Fahlman & Lonnie Pierson Dunbar (2012), Museum of Northern Arizona. * "The Arkansas Gazette", Little Rock Arkansas, 5 July 1892, 28 Feb 1893, 28 May 1893, 28 June 1893 * "Prescott Evening Courier", Prescott Arizona, Obituary of 22 April 1955 * www.AskART.com * 1870 United States Census, Arkansas, Sevier County, Washington Township


External links


E.A. Smith Archive

Effie Anderson Smith bio at Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture

E.A. Smith bio at Sharlot Hall Museum website

Tucson Desert Art Museum

Douglas Historical Society
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