Artist

Albion Smith

born Hemet, CA 1952
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Courtesy Albion Smith.
Born
Hemet, California, United States
Biography

Albion Smith learned to weld as a young boy in his father’s sheet metal shop. For a time, he lived in a school bus to save money and support his desire to make one-of-a-kind custom sculptures. Because space in the bus was limited, Smith scaled down his pieces and abandoned welded steel to become a silversmith. He enjoys the complexity of silversmithing and makes jewelry, watch cases, goblets, and teapots that display a variety of semiprecious stones.

Works by this artist (129 items)

Charles Bird King, Miss Satterlee, ca. 1830-1839, oil on wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Albert M. Pitcher, Jr., 1976.117
Miss Satterlee
Dateca. 1830-1839
oil on wood
On view
Charles Bird King, Unidentified, Apauly-Tustennuggee, 1825, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, 1985.66.387,322
Apauly-Tustennuggee
Artist
Unidentified
Date1825
oil on canvas
On view
Charles Bird King, TEH-RO-HON, AN IOWAY WARRIOR., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, ca. 1838, hand-colored lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1985.66.153,223
TEH-RO-HON, AN IOWAY WARRIOR., from History of the Indian…
Artist
Dateca. 1838
hand-colored lithograph on paper
Not on view