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Joseph Lindon Smith

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1863 - 1950, Dublin, New Hampshire

BiographySMITH, Joseph Lindon
American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 11 October 1863, in Pawtucket (Rhode Island); died 1950.
Painter, lithographer. Wall decorations.

Joseph Lindon Smith studied at the Boston School of Art and the Académie Julian in Paris, where he was taught by Boulanger and Lefebvre. He was a member of the American Federation of Arts. He painted murals at Boston library, and one of his works is in the École du Louvre.
Group Exhibitions
2007, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge
Solo Exhibitions
1998, Joseph Lindon Smith: Paintings from Egypt, Brown University, Providence (an exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the university's Department of Egyptology)
1999, Paintings by Joseph Lindon Smith: Egypt at the Thorne, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Boston
Chicago
Paris (Mus. National des Arts asiatiques-Guimet)
Washington DC
Auction Records
New York, 31 May 1990: Egyptian Figure - Wall Relief (oil on canvas, 36 ? 27 ins/91.5 ? 68.6 cm) USD 1,430
Cambridge, 11 Nov 2000: Profile Portrait of Exotic Woman (oil on board, 16 ? 12 ins/41 ? 30 cm) USD 1,600
Boston, 2 Dec 2001: Egyptian Sculpture Site (watercolour and pencil, 21 ? 14 ins/53 ? 36 cm) USD 7,000
New York, 13 June 2002: God Amun Enthroned (oil on canvas, 36 ? 24 ins/91 ? 60 cm) USD 3,500
Boston, 5 March 2004: Egyptian Figure, Tomb of Siptah, Valley of the Kings (oil on canvasboard, 27 ? 23 ins/69 ? 59 cm) USD 4,000
Boston, 10 Sept 2004: Amalfi Coast (1889, oil on canvas, 35 ? 23 ins/89 ? 58 cm) USD 4,000

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