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1879-1967
American (Boston, Massachusetts; Plymouth, Massachusetts)
Smith was known as a cartoonist and maritime painter, as well as a passionate sailor, which gave him firsthand knowledge of the complexity of the ocean. He moved to New York as an adult, and he would frequent the Art Students League. In 1900, Smith moved to Boston to work at the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe, sketching advertisements and cartoons. During World War I, he was in charge of camouflage work in Philadelphia and New York and by 1925, now settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, Smith decided to quit his newspaper job to concentrate whole-heartedly on painting marine pictures.
