Lawrence Beall Smith
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Lawrence Beall Smith | |
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| Born | October 2, 1909 Washington, D.C., United States |
| Died | 1995 Cross River, New York, United States |
| Known for | Painting |
Lawrence Beall Smith (October 2, 1909 – 1995) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor and lithographer. Examples of his original lithographs, paintings and sculpture are included in the permanent collections of such major galleries as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of Minnesota, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the National Gallery of Art, and the Library of Congress. The art collections of the United States Air Force and United States Navy, both in Washington, D.C., hold examples of Smith's paintings and prints depicting World War II.[1]
Smith's early childhood was spent in the Carolinas, Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana, moving with his family for his father's work in the United States Military.[2] He studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.B. (Bachelor of Philosophy)[3] in 1931.[4]
Smith began exhibiting his art in 1935 and gained a strong national reputation by 1941 when a one-man exhibition of his art was launched at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.[5]
![Don't Let that Shadow Touch Them (1942) War Bonds Poster by Lawrence Beall Smith](#/media/File:"Don't_Let_that_Shadow_Touch_Them"_poster_painted_by_Lawrence_Beall_Smith.jpg)
!["The Man without a Gun" (1944, Normandy) - painting by Lawrence Beall Smith](#/media/File:"The_Man_Without_a_Gun"_-_painting_by_Lawrence_Beall_Smith.jpg)
!["Monsters at Omaha Beach" (1944, Normandy) - painting by Lawrence Beall Smith](#/media/File:"Monsters_at_Omaha_Beach"_-_original_D-Day_+_Normandy_Invasion_painting_by_Lawrence_Beall_Smith.jpg)
