1902 American Oil Painting By Gene Smith 1851-1928 Horse And Landscape 'Kingmond' 20x30 Oil On Canvas

Wonderful estate fresh 1902 Horse oil on canvas painting by Listed American Artist Gene Smith. Canvas measures 20x30". Well listed artist see Ask Art Auction record in photos . One small touch up on the horses tail . Otherwise good condition. 33x24 with the frame . Painting is signed and dated 1902 lower right ( see photo ) and titled 'Kingmond' in the lower left.

A painter and illustrator whose work is especially focused on horses, Gene Smith was born in New York state and moved to Chicago in 1871, where he established a studio until 1884. The next year, he moved to New York City and worked there until 1923, when he settled in Galveston, Texas. He earned a reputation for horse portraits, although he also did dog paintings and Civil War genre such as his 1884 painting, General Grant and His Staff at Fort Donelson. He was a book illustrator with work including Tales of the Turf and 'Rank Outsiders' by Richard Cary (1891). In one of his paintings, The Parade of Prize Winners, he depicted 65 individual horses, focusing on the personality of each one. For a menu at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, he painted a champion trotter image that became a collector's item. He said he was self-taught "except for one lesson" (Samuels 450) when he was age 16 and spent a dollar for a one-hour session in the use of crayons. Of his subjects, he said: "The real likeness of a horse in action is above the legs." (Samuels 450) In 1923, Smith retired to Galveston, Texas and died there at St. Mary's Infirmary in 1928. He is buried in that city in the Episcopal Cemetery.

Exhibitions include the Annual Texas Artists Exhibition in Fort Worth, 1925 to 1928. His painting is represented in the Capitol Historical Artifact Collection in Austin.

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