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Elmer Boyd Smith

Elmer Boyd Smith (1860 - 1943) was active/lived in Kansas, Connecticut, New Brunswick / Canada.  Elmer Smith is known for Genre, figure, history, book illustrator.

Born in St. John, New Brunswick in 1860, E. Boyd Smith was raised in Boston, and educated in France. At an early age he worked for the Riverside Press in Boston then went to Paris where he studied drawing and painting and wrote and illustrated his first book, "My Village".

He returned to Boston in 1898 where he illustrated books for Houghton Mifflin. In early 1900, he went West sketching Indians and herders. Smith illustrated books by Andy Adams ("Log Of A Cowboy") and Mary Austin ("Land Of Little Rain") insuring his reputation as a western artist.

Among his many illustrated books "Noah's Ark" began a series of many books for children.

Smith retired in Wilton, Connecticut,and died in 1943.

Submitted August 2004 by Sidney Wiener, Collector

Source: "American Picturebooks From Noah's Ark to The Beast Within"
by Barbara Bader

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Facts about Elmer Boyd Smith

   Publications  Book References:  22
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22 Book References for Elmer Boyd Smith
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Lewandowski, Stacia Light, Landscape and the Creative Quest: Early Artists of Santa Fe 272 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2000 Cuthbert, John A. Early Art and Artists in West Virginia 301 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)
408 Yes
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1980 Boston Public Library The Artist and the Child Exhibition of Children's Books
(Exhibition catalog)
96 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1976 Bader, Barbara American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within 615 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1975 Dykes, Jeff Fifty Great Western Illustrators A Bibliographic Checklist 456 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1933 Editors Who's Who in American Art American Art Annual, 1933 0 No
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