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Letta Crapo Smith

Letta Crapo Smith (1862 - 1921) was active/lived in Michigan, Massachusetts.  Letta Smith is known for Landscape, figure-portrait, floral.

Letta Crapo Smith (1862 – 1921) American

Letta Crapo Smith was born on 4 July 1862 into the prominent Crapo family of Flint, Michigan. Her father, Humphrey Henry Howland Crapo Smith, was a Michigan lumber baron and her mother, Lucy Ann Crapo, was the daughter of the former Michigan Governor, Henry H. Crapo. Through her mother's side, she was descended from Mayflower passenger William White and Revolutionary War Patriot, Peter Crapo of Massachusetts who served as a Minute Man from 1775-1776. Her first cousin was Billy Durant the founder of General Motors and Chevrolet, also of Flint, Michigan.

After her father moved the family to Detroit to establish an exporting center for Michigan lumber, Letta was raised in the prominent society of Detroit. She attended Daughters of the American Revolution functions with her mother. The society papers reported moments of her life which included entertaining at her mother's home, pouring tea for other Detroit society ladies, working on f   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3135 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Letta Crapo Smith


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art MethodArt MediaArt Style
  • Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Europe
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Teacher
  • Tony Robert-Fleury
  • William Bouguereau
  • William Merritt Chase
Art School
  • Academie Julian, Paris, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Figure Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
Exhibition of Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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