Wallace Herndon Smith Art Collection

“How to compress a life of one man endowed with talent, gifted in diverse fields, possessed of wit, and blessed by a marriage of enduring felicity and luster? Wallace Herndon Smith – “Wally” to his friends – devoted his professional life to art, painting in oil and watercolor in the tradition of French Post-Impressionism.

With his beautiful and charming wife, Kelse, he travelled widely in Europe and America. The body of his work encompassed still life, figure painting, portraiture, landscape, and tropical studies of sailboats and duck shooting among other records of the outdoor life he loved. A man of proven devotion to his craft, Wallace Herndon Smith will be remembered for his warmth of personality, his charm, and his artistic and personal integrity. ”

– Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. 
Wallace Herndon Smith, Rediscovered

Samples from the Wallace Herndon Smith Art Collection

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