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Wuanita Smith'Humming Birds and Orchids' — Vintage White Line Color WoodcutCirca 1930
Circa 1930
About the Item
Wuanita Smith, 'Humming Birds and Orchids', white-line color woodcut, circa 1930, edition 50. Signed and titled in pencil. Annotated '50 edition', 'no 5' and 'For Easter to Mrs Salus' in pencil, in the artist’s hand. A fine painterly impression, with fresh colors, on heavy cream wove Japan paper; the white lines embossed above the paper surface throughout; the full sheet with margins (3/8 to 3 3/4 inches); mat line from a previous mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. A unique impression with hand painting in the red hummingbird. Printed by the artist.
Image size 12 x 9 5/8 inches (305 x 244 mm); sheet size 15 3/4 x 11 inches (400 x 279 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Painter, printmaker, and illustrator Wuanita Smith (1866-1959) was born in Philadelphia and began her art training in 1884 at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. A student of Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute, she also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Students League in New York, and in Paris with printmaker Allen Lewis.
Smith’s successful career as a highly regarded children's book illustrator included commissions for 'The Admiral’s Granddaughter' (1907), 'The Four Corners Abroad' by Amy Ella Blanchard (1909), 'The Admiral’s Little Secretary' (1911), 'The Little Runaways At Home' (1912) by Alice Turner Curtis, 'A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony' (1915), 'Oh, Virginia!' (1920) by Helen Sherman Griffith, 'Brothers Grimm and Other Stories' (1922), and 'Grandpa's Little Girls and Their Friends' (1925) by Alice Turner Curtis.
Smith was a founding member with Mary Mullineux of the American Color Print Society, and the women often exhibited together. She was also an active participant of the renowned Provincetown, Massachusetts group that developed the white line color block print method during World War I. She exhibited with the group throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Smith had a studio on Nantucket and was a regular exhibitor at the summer art colony in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. She also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy, the Plastic Club, and the Woodmere Art Museum.
Smith traveled extensively in France, Alaska, and Mexico and was active professionally into her nineties. For many years, she maintained living quarters in Philadelphia at the Clinton Hotel.
Wuanita Smith’s color woodcuts are held in the collections of the Delaware Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nantucket Historical Association, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania Museum of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Creator:Wuanita Smith (1866 - 1959)
- Creation Year:Circa 1930
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 9.63 in (24.47 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Myrtle Beach, SC
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