Biografie von Elmer Boyd SMITH (1860-1943)

Birth place: St. John, New Brunswick, Canada

Death place: Wilton, CT

Addresses: Boston, MA, 1880s & 1890s; Wilton, CT (early 1900s-on)

Profession: Painter, illustrator, writer

Studied: Académie Julian, Paris with Boulanger and Lefebvre, 1881-84; also with H. Lefort

Exhibited: Boston AC, 1885-86, 1896-98;PAFA Ann., 1885, 1898; Paris Salon, 1891 (etchings), 1892-94; Soc. Nat. Beaux-Arts, 1897, 1899

Member: Boston AC.

Comments: After spending the 1880s-90s in France (living in Paris and Auvers), he traveled through the West sketching and briefly lived in Kansas City where he was the first director, Kansas City AA and School of Design. By the early 1900s he settled in Connecticut. Author/illustrator: The Story of Noah's Ark," "The Chicken World," "Pocahontas and Captain John Smith," "The Story of Our Country."

Sources: WW33; P&H Samuels, 449-50; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, erroneously lists him as E. Smith Boyd (323) and correctly as E. Boyd Smith (391); Falk, Exh. Record Series.