Genuine vintage prints of Jerome Howard Smith's Western paintings Published in San Francisco by our founder, Fred T. Darvill, in the 1930s.
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The condition of the prints is generally excellent. Keep in mind, however, that they are over 80 years old and though they have been stored flat and in a dark, climate-controlled environment, some may have minor corner or edge wear or browning to the extreme edges of the paper. We will always indicate any flaws that might be deemed obtrusive. |
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Jerome Howard Smith (1861-1941) painting "Judge Lynch" in the late 1920s or early 1930s. The painting was owned by our founder Fred T. Darvill and auctioned along with hundreds of other rare Western paintings in the early 1970s. Jerome Howard Smith was born in Pleasant Valley, Illinois in 1861. He grew up on a farm and broke horses as a youth. In 1879 he began his western travels. He first went to Leadville, Colorado where the silver-mining boom was underway. After drifting around the West for a few years, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and worked in Chicago as a comic illustrator for the Rambler. From there he moved to New York City where he was on the art staff for the Judge and Leslie’s Weekly. On assignments for these publications he made regular forays into the West and did a series of “Ranch Life in the West” with Charlie Russell. Leading a peripatetic life, he was in Texas, the Dakotas, and at one time lived in San Francisco. After years of wandering over the West, he married an Indian girl and settled in British Columbia where he painted oils of his earlier observations of western life until his death on March 8, 1941. |
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