Dan Smith (1865- 1934) Oil Painting

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Estate Finds Throughout France and Miami

By Akiba Antiques

Apr 29, 2021

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A curated sale by Mr. Jonathan Akiba with items personally selected from estates in Paris, Archamps, Nice, Marseille, and throughout South Florida. Akiba Antiques info@akibaantiques.com

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  DESCRIPTION: Dan Smith (1865- 1934) Oil Painting created as design for magazine cover depicting an elegant amazona lady riding a horse in elegant 1920s fashion.
  
  Dan Smith was an illustrator of remarkable talent and distinctive style, whose work from the 1890s through the early 1930s earned him widespread recognition. Yet, as well-known and highly regarded as he was in his lifetime, he has since, like so many of the masterful practitioners from the Golden Age, become virtually forgotten. This may be due in large part to the circumstance that his greatest fame was in the ephemeral realm of newspaper illustration. While Smith created countless paintings, posters, book and magazine illustrations, and advertisements, he was most lauded for his decades of stunning covers for the Sunday supplements featured in many major papers of the day.
  As one of The World’s Sunday magazine’s most prolific illustrators for over twenty years, drawing nearly all of its covers, Smith became known to millions of readers in the United States, and, through syndication, the world. In addition to decorative images, Smith also illustrated sumptuous, serialized narrative stories, which he sometimes wrote as well. Smith also painted several World War I posters, was the official poster artist for the 1926. During his lifetime, Dan Smith was known not just for his brilliant illustrations, but also for his considerable work in oils and etchings. He was a long-standing member, artistic contributor, and officer of The Pleiades Club, a bohemian Greenwich Village association of artists, poets, authors, musicians, and bon vivants. Smith was devoted to his wife, Wilhelmina von Lowe, for whom he crafted elaborate hand-drawn valentines each year. The couple were known as stylish and dramatic figures in the artistic circles of Manhattan.
  
  
  CIRCA: 1920s.
  ORIGIN: USA.
  DIMENSIONS: H: 32" W: 25 1/4".
  CONDITION: Good condition. See lot description for details on item condition. More detailed condition requests can be obtained via email (info@akibaantiques.com) or SMS 305-332-9274. Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Akiba Antiques shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.
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