"-1897 CAIRO GOUACHE BY F.C. SMITH -LISTED

" Full Moon - Cairo Street Scene " by Frederick Carl Smith: Original gouache on heavy wove paper: circa 1897: image size: 12 1/4 inches by 9 1/4 inches: signed lower left : inscribed verso in pencil  " Cairo Street Scene ": estate stamp/verso: framed. ( acutal color is closer to that in my second photo )

Already recognized in France as early as 1900 ( see Benezit - French Dictionary of Painters ), Frederick Carl Smith is only now being rediscovered in the US as an important early American Plein Air Impressionist. He was a world traveler and influential founding member of the Laguna Beach Art Association ( 1918 ) and the Pasadena art colony.

NOTE: This work is beautifully framed under glass in an expensive new custom closed corner 18k gold leafed frame: frame size is 15 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches. 

Frederick Carl Smith was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1868. After studies at the Cincinnati School of Art and the Ohio Mechanics Art Institute Smith settled in Paris where he continued his studies at the Academie Julien under Bouguereau, Ferrar and Constant. At the turn of the century Smith traveled and painted extensively in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the Azores. In the late 1890s Smith made an extended trip across Egypt. In 1897 he painted from life street scenes in the Old City neighborhoods of Cairo before going on to sail down the Nile painting the ruins at Luxor and other historic sites along the way. 

While in Europe Smith exhibited at the Paris Salon and with the Paris Society of American Artists ( 1902 ). After returning from Europe he maintained a studio for 17 years in Washingron D.C. where he was active as a portrait, landscape and marine painter working in oil, watercolor and gouache. In 1917 Smith settled in Pasadena, California where he was an active member of the Society of Pasadena Artists and the Pasadena Art Institute. He is also known to have traveled and painted in Mexico and Central America. He was a member of the California Art Club, Society of Washington Artists, Washington Water Color Club, Paris American Artists Association, Pasadena Society of Artists, Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles and the California Water Color Society.

Smith exhibited at the American Artists Society, Paris, the Los Angeles Museum of Art, the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Paris Salon, the National Academy of Design and the Southwest Museum of Art, Los Angeles. His works represented in public buildings include Capitol Building, Denver, Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio, Continental Hall, Washington, D.C., Allegheny Observatory, and Orange County Museum of Art,( California ).

REF: Who Was Who in American Art: Falk: Benezit: Dictionary of Artists/Paris: Artists in California: Hughes: American Art at the Paris Salons: Fink: Southern California Art: Moure: The Artists of Washington D.C.: McMahan: The Society of Independent Artists: Marior: The Capital Image: Cosentino: Dictionary of American Artists: Opitz: Mallett: Index of Artists: Smithsonian Archive

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