Helena Wood Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 9, 1865 Bangor, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | August 1914 (aged 49) |
| Cause of death | Strangulation |
| Education | Pratt Institute |
| Partner | George Kodani |
| Relatives | Ruel Perley Smith (brother) |
Helena Wood Smith (March 9, 1865 – August 1914) was an American artist.
Early life and education[edit]
Helena Wood Smith was born on March 9, 1865, in Bangor, Maine. She was the sister of novelist, Ruel Perley Smith. Helena attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Career[edit]
By 1912, she had moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and was the instructor of "drawing and painting from nature" at the local School of Arts & Crafts.[1] She exhibited at the San Francisco Art Association (1910–1913), Carmel Arts & Crafts Club (1913), and the Hotel Del Monte Art Gallery (1911–13).
Part of her early exhibition history includes the: Boston Art Club (1893–1900), Annuals of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1896–1897), Water Color Club of Washington, D.C. (1902), and Annual of the Art Club of Philadelphia (1900).[2] At the latter, her entry was entitled "Merestead, Gardens of the Pilgrims".[3] Smith was also discussed in Corelli C. W. Simpson's Leaflet of Artists (J.W. Bacon, 1893).
Personal life[edit]
In August 1914, she was strangled and buried on the beach by her lover, Japanese art-photographer George Kodani, who was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.[1][4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Edwards, Robert W. (2012). Jennie V. Cannon: The Untold History of the Carmel and Berkeley Art Colonies, Vol. 1. Oakland, Calif.: East Bay Heritage Project. pp. 135–136, 141–148, 636, 691. ISBN 9781467545679. An online facsimile of the entire text of Vol. 1 is posted on the Traditional Fine Arts Organization website ("Jennie V. Cannon: The Untold History of the Carmel and Berkeley Art Colonies, vol. One, East Bay Heritage Project, Oakland, 2012; by Robert W. Edwards". Archived from the original on 2016-04-29. Retrieved 2016-06-07.).
- ^ American Art Annual 4, 1903-04, p. II-68.
- ^ The Catalog of the Annual Exhibition of the Penn. Academy of Fine Arts (1896), v. 66-67; Catalog of the Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Art Club of Philadelphia (1900), v. 9-17
- ^ Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 786-1940 (San Francisco: Crocker Art Museum, 2002)