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THBFrank Vining Smith (1879-1967) Hello Baby
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65 Sharp Street
Hingham, MA 02043
United States
Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
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LiveJul 24, 2016 - Jul 25, 2016
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Frank Vining Smith (1879-1967)
Hello Baby
signed "Frank Vining Smith" lower left
oil on canvas, 28 by 36 in.
inscribed with title on back
Dalzell Hatfield Galleries label on back
In his monograph on the artist, James A. Craig writes, "Frank Vining Smith enjoyed in his day the critical and monetary success most artists never attain. His work was exhibited coast to coast in the country's most prestigious galleries and collected nationwide...His training had been among the finest: Frank W. Benson, Philip L. Hale and Edmund C. Tarbell would provide him with the tools necessary to excel in his chosen profession.
Smith, born in 1879 in Whitman, MA, settled in Hingham to a life of hunting, fishing, and creating art. Craig reports, "Beginning in the 1940s, Smith ... embraced sporting themes, Portrayals of wildlife and sporting subjects had been popularized by Winslow Homer in the late nineteenth century. By 1912, Smith's former instructor Frank Benson was painting scenes of men hunting in forests or fishing in marshes, and these drew acclaim in his later years_such themes by Homer and Benson appealed to Bostonians_
Craig continues, "ÖSocial interactions between local artists and affluent men from the business and professional worlds were unusually strong in Boston_The artistic depiction of outdoorsmen at moments of excellence was a direct extension of such social rituals of relaxation and competition. Smith followed their legacy and was acknowledged in his day as the heir to this tradition and one of the Öthree_leading living painters of sporting subjects in New England.'
Craig also notes, "Employing an interesting and somewhat unusual perspective, Smith often chose to feature encounters between wildlife and hunters, whether sudden and unexpected, or quiet and suspenseful. Hello Baby is a quiet scene with vibrant brushstrokes and a peaceful atmosphere, where the startled deer share the canvas with a fisherman enjoying his lunch. It is a classic, charming scene of the sporting life.
Literature: James A. Craig, Frank Vining Smith: Maritime Painting in the 20th Century, Lenox, MA, 2010, pp. 9, 125, 126.Condition
possible 2 by 1/4 in. repair at center, 2 in. left of fisherman's head, otherwise good condition by sight and UV examination
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