Shortening Sail

Catalog no. 0000856

MediumOil on Canvas Board
Size16 x 20 Inches
SignedSigned LR: Frank Vining Smith
DateCirca 1930s

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About the artist

Born and schooled in South Abington (now Whitman), Massachusetts, Smith later was pupil to Frank Benson, Philip L. Hale & Edmund C. Tarbell at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. He also attended the Central Ontario School of Design in Toronto & Art Students League, New York City. In New York he was an illustration artist contributing to magazines such as Outdoors, Field & Stream, and Yachting as well as the Boston dailies Globe, Herald & Journal. During the first world war, he painted camouflage in Philadelphia & New York. After the war, he devoted his talents to become a fine marine…

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