Artist in all media, latterly mostly acrylic on canvas, and teacher, born in Sturgis, Michigan, America. Smith studied art history and practice, 1932–6, at Northwestern University, Illinois, then painting, 1936–8, at California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco. Among Smith’s awards were one For Distinguished Service to American Art from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1967, and a honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, 1991. Smith taught there, extensively elsewhere in America including Universities of California and Oregon, and in England at West of England College of Art/Bristol Polytechnic and Cardiff College of Art. Had numer-ous group and solo shows, mainly in America, later one-mans including Cleveland Bridge Gallery, Bath, 1988, and London Contemporary Art Fair, Iannetti-Lanzoni, 1989.