Bilbas, Spain

ALBERT ALEXANDER SMITH (1896 - 1940) Bilbas, Spain. Oil on linen canvas, 1927. 508x610 mm; 20x24 inches. Signed, dated and titled in oil, lower right. Provenance: Albert Alexander Smith; Alfred Renforth Smith, father of the artist (1940s); Reverend Frederick Rickford Meyers, Detroit, MI (1950s); private collection, Michigan (2023). Exhibited: Exhibit of Fine Arts of American Negro Artists, Harmon Foundation, New York, 1930, with the exhibition number label "29" on the stretcher bars verso. Illustrated: Fine Arts Exhibit of American Negro Artists, Harmon Foundation, p. 11. This artwork is part of an incredible trove of artworks by Albert Alexander Smith recently discovered in a large steamer trunk. It belonged to his father Alfred R. Smith who worked as his son's agent in New York. In the 1950s, Alfred Smith shipped this trunk to the Rev. Frederick R. Meyers of Detroit, a fellow World War I veteran and friend of Albert Alexander Smith who had become a minister. The undisturbed trunk was recently purchased from a storage facility in Michigan and unpacked for the first time seventy years later. Albert Alexander Smith was, after Henry Ossawa Tanner, the embodiment of the early 20th cen

Date

1941

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

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image

Original size

1,200 × 1,038 pixels

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