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Wallace Herndon Smith
Still Life of Flowers and Fruit
mid-late 19th Century

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Wallace Herndon Smith "Still Life of Flowers and Fruit" Oil on Panel Signed Upper Right Site Size: approx. 28.5 x 20.5 inches Framed Size: approx. 35 x 27 inches Biography from Butler Institute of American Art 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 in a modernist era. It was not that he despised modern painting; it was a matter of knowing its limits. He once wrote that the propenents of "abstract" art claim that it "expresses the chaos of our times." He took exception. "I'm not sold on the fact that art must necessarily reflect chaos. Just because there's a puddle in the street, do I have to step in it?" By holding to traditional tenets in art, he often lost out in the scramble for public recognition and approval. For fifty years he painted almost daily, and created over 500 paintings including still lifes, land and city scapes, scenes of boats and water, figure and portrait. One of his earliest works, "St. Louis Scene", was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1932. Artist Peggy Bacon wrote of her friend Wallace Smith: "His pictures themselves are like him for their lack of flourish. They are sensitive and economical, subtly subdued in color, restrained in their rejection of the stylized, and make no attempt at the dashing effect. The landscapes in particular appear to retreat and wait for an attentive observer to come along and notice their quiet virtue. But though they are generally very mild in mood, the canvases have structure and atmosphere and a very pesuasive tonal quality; and once observed they shine like an open window."

Creator:
Wallace Herndon Smith (1901 - 1990)
Creation Year:
mid-late 19th Century
Dimensions:
Height: 35 in (88.9 cm)Width: 27 in (68.58 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Medium:
Oil,Panel
Movement Style:
American Impressionist
Period:
Late 19th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Missouri, MO
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU74736170512

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