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Wallace Herndon Smith

Wallace Herndon Smith (1901 - 1990) was active/lived in Missouri.  Wallace Smith is known for Landscape, figure, still life.

Wallace Herndon Smith
from "Wallace Herndon Smith : Paintings" by Lee Hall published by the Academy for Educational Development and University of Washington Press.)

"This is the story of one American painter, heretofore unheralded, and of his singular life in art, his searches, personal failures, and successes as an artist."

Wallace Smith was born in 1901 into affluence and spent much of his life defending his right to "artist" status. He painted mostly in his native St. Louis, but was never a regionalist as defined by art terminology. From his studies in France, he absorbed attitudes and skills associated with late nineteenth and early twentieth century French painters, but he applied his vision and his paint through a predominantly American, even midwestern, sensibility.

A traditional painter after the style of the Old Masters whom he revered, Smith found himself cast as an apologist for the classical style i   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2399 characters.]  Artist bio

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