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George Henry Smillie

George Henry Smillie (1840 - 1921) was active/lived in New York, California.  George Smillie is known for Hudson River style landscape painting, Indian genre, engraving.

The son of a printmaker who engraved Hudson River School landscapes, George Smillie became a painter of traditional 19th-century landscapes in the Hudson River style.

He trained in engraving with his father, James Smillie, and then was a painting pupil of James McDougal Hart.  From 1862 to 1900, he exhibited at the National Academy of Design and was elected to membership in the Academy in 1882, and in 1892 became Secretary.

He spent most of his professional life in New York City, but he and his brother, James David Smillie, traveled West to the Rocky Mountains and Yosemite Valley in 1870. Two years later, he went to Europe, which resulted in a more forceful style and lightened palette.  He also traveled in the Adirondacks and the White Mountains of New Hampshire.  Late in his career, he adopted the Impressionist style.

In 1881, he married Nellie Sheldon Jacobs, a pupil of his brother's, and the three of them shared a studio.  He w   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4335 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about George Henry Smillie

   Publications  Book References:  60
Magazine References:  7

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7 Miscellaneous Magazine References for George Henry Smillie
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Claude Raquet Hirst (1855-1942) December 2004 Evans, Martha M Yes
American Arts Quarterly The Hickory Museum of Art May 2004 Mirabella, Stephen Yes
American Art Review American Masters: The John Wilmerdi April 2004 Kelly, Franklin Yes
American Art Review The Hudson River School February 2002 Huff, Roger Yes
American Art Review Collection of John and Dolores Beck December 2000 Leeds, Valerie Ann Yes
American Art Review Two Centuries of American Drawing December 1997 Dreishpoon, Douglas Yes
The Magazine Antiques Paintings of the Adirondack July 1997 Welsh, Caroline Yes
60 Book References for George Henry Smillie
Year Author Title Pages Color
2010 Cleveland, David Adams A History of American Tonalism 592 Yes
2009 Libby, Gary R. Reflections-Paintings of Florida 1865-1965 184 Yes
2007 Vose Galleries, Boston (essays by Rachel Beaupre and Courtney Kopplin) Defining A Nation: Paintings of Nineteenth-Century America, Featuring the Wheeler Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
25 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
2005 Reis, Mary Clare; Lisa N. Peters et all Fine American Art from 1845 to 1960 (Spanierman Gallery, LLC
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2004 Kelly, Franklin American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
168 Yes
2003 Editor: Spanierman Gallery Art for the New Collector II Re-Emerging American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
2000 Florida Museum of Fine Arts An American Palette: Works from Collection of John/Dolores Beck 0 No
2000 Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn Boston Art Club: 1855-1950 88 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1995 Barnhill, Georgia B Wild Impressions The Adirondacks on Paper 99 Yes
1994 Wilmerding, John The Artist's Mount Desert American Painters on the Maine Coast 195 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)
408 Yes
1991 Baekland, Frederick Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925
(Exhibition catalog)
160 Yes
1991 Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll. Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam 271 Yes
1991 Koshkin-Youritzin, Victor American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
204 Yes
1991 Schwarz, Robert D. (Editor) American Watercolors and Pastels: Schwarz-Philadelphia
(Exhibition catalog)
76 No
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Halsby, Julian Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters 223 Yes
1989 Florida Arts Celebration Florida Visionaries: 1870-1930
(Exhibition catalog)
80 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 Nelson, Harold B Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape 111 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Wilmerding, John American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art 208 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
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
1985 Pisano, Ronald G Long Island Landscape Painting 1820-1920 (Volume 1) 167 Yes
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1984 Harding, Jonathan P Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure 185 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
600 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1982 Gerdts, William H (others) Tonalism An American Experience
(Exhibition catalog)
94 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)
213 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)
325 Yes
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1977 Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward) American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection 256 Yes
1977 Rhode Island School of Design American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930 241 No
1977 Sheldon, George William Recent Ideals of Americn Art 176 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1975 Arkelian, Marjorie The Kahn Collection Of 19th Century Paintings by Artists in Caifornia 64 Yes
1974 Wilmerding, John (Introductory Essay) 19th Century American Topographic Painters Lowe Art Museum Exhibition, November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975
(Exhibition catalog)
95 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)
1075 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)
160 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)
281 No
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