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Effie Anderson Smith (September 29, 1869 – April 21, 1955), also known as Mrs. A.Y. Smith, was an early Arizona impressionist painter of desert landscapes, many of Cochise County and the Grand Canyon. Smith was born in the rural countryside near Nashville, Arkansas, in 1869.〔Mitre Press ''Principal Women of America'', p. 112〕 She grew up in Arkansas and may have served as a school teacher in Little Rock while in her early teens.〔 She studied at the National Academy of Design in New York, in Philadelphia, and also in California in Oakland (1904),〔Crocker Art Museum ''Artists in California, 1786–1940'', p. 1033〕 with May Bradford Shockley in San Francisco (1908),〔 in Laguna Beach with Anna Althea Hills (1914) and also at the Stickney School in Pasadena with Jean Mannheim〔Progressive Arizona and the Great Southwest ''Mrs. A.Y. Smith, Arizona Artist'' November 1929, p. 13, 33, 34〕 and Richard E. Miller (1916).〔University of Texas Press ''An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West'', p. 283〕 Her exhibitions include a show of her Southwest paintings in Corcoran Hall at George Washington University in Washington, DC beginning May 20, 1931. She lived for 50 years in the southeast of Arizona, primarily in Pearce (from 1896 to 1941) and later in Douglas (from 1941 to 1951) in Cochise County, and seasonally in Morenci in Greenlee County at the home of her son Lewis A. Smith. Smith moved to Prescott, Arizona in 1951, and died there at the Arizona Pioneers' Home in 1955.〔Prescott Evening Courier "Death Claims Effie Smith", 22 April 1955〕 ==External links== *(E.A. Smith Archive ) *(E.A. Smith bio at Sharlot Hall Museum Women's Memorial Rose Garden site ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Effie Anderson Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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