May Aimée Smith (1886–1962) was an English painter and engraver.[1][2]
Early life and education
editSmith was born 16 March 1886 near Manchester, England. She studied wood engraving in Paris under Dmitri Galanis.[1]
Career
editShe had shows with the Society of Wood Engravers and at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.[1] In 1939/1940 she was included in the Seventh Annual Exhibition of Lithograpy and Wood Engraving at the Art Institute of Chicago.[3]
Her work is included in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum,[4] the Auckland City Art Gallery,[5] the Nottingham City Museums and Galleries,[6] the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa,[7] the Victoria & Albert Museum, London[8] the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and Manchester Art Gallery.
Smith died in 1962 at Birch Vale, Stockport, Cheshire, England.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "May Aimee Smith | Artists | Collection | British Council − Visual Arts". visualarts.britishcouncil.org.
- ^ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov.
- ^ "Seventh International Exhibition - Lithography and Wood Engraving". Art Institute of Chicago.
- ^ "May Aimee Smith – Artists – eMuseum".
- ^ "The Art of Woodcut - Selected Woodcuts and Wood Engravings from the Permanent Collection" (PDF). rfacdn.nz/.
- ^ "print (woodcut): "Fish Market-Toulon"". www.europeana.eu.
- ^ "Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz.
- ^ "Roof tops, Paris; Smith, May Aimée". V and A Collections. 9 May 2020.