As a prolific Southwest Impressionist, Effie Anderson Smith created dozens of paintings each year during her most productive artistic years, which ranged from about 1915 through her 80th birthday in 1949.
The majority of these paintings are now in private collections, museums, libraries, and other institutions. Tracking down these paintings has proven quite challenging.
The best extant details we have from her many solo shows survives in a printed exhibition program from 1931 - the year she toured the Eastern U. S. cities, including Washington, D.C.. One exhibition took place at Corcoran Hall, George Washington University, opening May 20th, 1931.
(Summarized below)
Name of Pictures
1. "The Old Yucca" found!
2. "Grass Grown Plains" found!
3. "Cochise's Stronghold" (Morning Lights)
4. "Sunset Peace"
5. "Arizona Afterglow"
6. "Morning Lights"
7. "Autumn" found!
8. "An Arizona Mirage"
9. "Mesa Land"
10. "Drifting Clouds"
11. "Yuccas in Bloom"
12. "Desert View from the Mountain Tops"
13. "Tenaha" (the Open Jug), New Mexico
14. "Sunlit Hills" found!
15. "The Unnamed Temple" (Grand Canyon) found!
16. "View from the Head of Bright Angel Trail" (Grand Canyon) found!
17. "Looking East from Yavapai Point" (Grand Canyon) found!
18. "Arizona after the Rain"
19. "Sunset on the Mountain Tops"
20. "Arizona Landscape" found!
These pictures will be on exhibition in this hall for one week.
After E.A. Smith returned from her travels East, most of the paintings from this tour were either sold to collectors or gifted to friends and institutions.
HAVE YOU SEEN ANY OF THESE PAINTINGS?
We would be very grateful if you can provide details on these or any other works
by Effie Anderson Smith so we may continue our research and add these
to our forthcoming Catalogue raisonné.
If you have details you would like to share, please contact us.