“Her exhibit is a reminder that Arizona offers every conceivable artistic problem of light, color, mass, lines and emotion. Especially do Arizona lights test the abilities, for in few places is it so intense, so quickly changing and so suggestive of varying moods. In this phase of work alone Mrs. Smith has established herself as an artist of excellent ability.”

— Bernice Cosulich - Arizona Daily Star - January 25, 1927

“The expression of space by a graduation of color ranging from the clear cut Yucca and yellow grasses across the base line to the many colored tips of the mountain vanishing in the sky was distinctive. From the saturated colors of the desert to the hues of the mountain tops and shades of the canyons the noted colourist depicted Southern Arizona as only one could who loved the country and was in sympathy with its every mood.”

— The Benson News - December 11, 1926

“...It is the desert and the desert hills and mountains that this artist has glorified, not a land of sand and wasteland, but a country where color runs riot from its desert blossoms to its famous sunsets...”

— Douglas Daily Dispatch - January 1942