Artist

Dana Smith

n.d.
Active in
  • Franklin, New Hampshire, United States
Biography

Very little is known about Dana Smith, whose paintings were discovered by Robert Bishop in a Germantown, Pennsylvania, shop and in Franklin, New Hampshire, during the early 1960s. Based on his dozen or so extant works, Smith favored a dramatic use of color and mostly painted landscapes of small New England towns in which railroads and bridges are prominent features.

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C. and London: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990)

Works by this artist (2 items)

Dana Smith, Triangular Mountainscape with Tunnel, ca. 1900, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson, 1986.65.140
Triangular Mountainscape with Tunnel
Artist
Dateca. 1900
oil on canvas
Not on view
Dana Smith, Woman in Interior, ca. 1900, oil and lithographed paper on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson, 1986.65.139
Woman in Interior
Artist
Dateca. 1900
oil and lithographed paper on canvas
Not on view