May Aimée Smith

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Smith by Pierre Adolphe Valette, 1918

May Aimée Smith (1886–1962) was an English painter and engraver.[1][2]

Early life and education[edit]

Smith was born 16 March 1886 near Manchester, England. She studied wood engraving in Paris under Dmitri Galanis.[1]

Career[edit]

She 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] and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London[8]

Smith died in 1962 at Birch Vale, Stockport, Cheshire, England.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "May Aimee Smith | Artists | Collection | British Council − Visual Arts". visualarts.britishcouncil.org.
  2. ^ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov.
  3. ^ https://www.artic.edu/assets/6f4ddc0c-aaf0-2e37-244e-4fb06439c661 [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ "May Aimee Smith – Artists – eMuseum".
  5. ^ https://rfacdn.nz/artgallery/assets/media/1979-the-art-of-the-woodcut-catalogue.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ "print (woodcut): "Fish Market-Toulon"". www.europeana.eu.
  7. ^ "Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz.
  8. ^ "Roof tops, Paris; Smith, May Aimée". V and A Collections. 9 May 2020.