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Marshall Joseph Jr Smith

Marshall Joseph Jr Smith (1854 - 1923) was active/lived in Louisiana.  Marshall Smith is known for Bayou landscape, portrait, designer.

A painter of southern landscapes with fishermen, shanties, swamps and moss-laden trees, Marshall Smith Jr. was also the founder of the Southern Art Union (1880). He was born in Norfolk, Virginia and was active in New Orleans from 1870 to 1906. He arrived there as a child and took his first art lessons from Adolphe Jacquet in 1866. In 1870, he became a pupil of Richard Clague, the city's foremost landscape painter, and it was Clague who is credited as the greatest influence on Smith. He also studied with Theodore Sidney Moise.

In 1874, Smith left New Orleans to study in Rome and Munich and to tour Italy, England, and France. He returned to the United States in 1876 and by 1878 had returned to New Orleans to work as a clerk in his father's insurance company and later through 1888 to work as insurance broker. During that time he remained active as an artist, exhibiting landscapes, founding the Southern Art Union, and also in 1882, founding the Proteus carnival organization. He also   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1371 characters.]  Artist bio

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Marshall Joseph Jr Smith
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Southern Landscape Painting December 1999 Pennington, Estill Curtis Yes
13 Book References for Marshall Joseph Jr Smith
Year Author Title Pages Color
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
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Delehanty, Randolph Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection 292 Yes
1991 Pennington, Estill Curtis Downriver Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950 208 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1989 Pennington, Estill Curtis Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art 200 Yes
1987 Mahe, John A. II; Rosanne McCaffrey (Editors) Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918 464 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1984 Wilmerding, John The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls
(Exhibition catalog)
104 No
1983 Virginia Museum, Richmond Painting in the South: 1564-1980
(Exhibition catalog)
362 Yes
1969 Anglo-American Art Museum The Louisiana Landscape 1800-1969 48 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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