Holmes SMITH

Birth: 9 MAY 1863, Keighley,,,England
Death: 1 JUN 1937, St. Louis,,MO,USA

Marriage: 9 FEB 1897

Abigail Eliot SMITH

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Educated at the Trade and Grammar School of Keighley, England, and at Royal College of Science, South Kensington, London. Cam to America in 1884 (naturalized 1896) as instructor in drawing in the kCollege and Polytechnic School of Washington University, St. Louis; became Assistant Professor, and in 1907 Professor of Drawing and the History of Art; Professor of History of Art, 1930-1933; Professor Emeritus from 1933 to 1937. From s1892 to 1895, he was Acting Director of the School and Museum of Fine Arts of Washington University. Secretary of the kFaculty (1899-1909) Washington University; honorary degree of Master of Arts, Washington University, 1907; honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Artss, University of Nebraska, 1928. Painter in water colors. President of St. Louis Artists' Guild, 1911-1912; President of Society of Western Artists, 1901-1904; President of College Art Association, 1912-1913; honorary member of St. Louis Chapter of American Institute of Architects. Member, Federal Council on Art Education, 1925l-1930; Vice-President, 1926-1930. At the time of his death he was engaged in writing a history of Washington University, which remains unfinished. (1988)

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