Langdon Smith (1870-1959)

Marked: Estate signature stamp, as shown. Titled on the reverse Near Sierra County.

Condition: The subject is in very nice condition with no tears, holes and etc. No inpainting detected. This oil on board has not been removed from its original framing, which has some minor nicks and chips.

Dimensions: Board area measures 10 inches by 7.25 inches, where as frame measures 2.25 inches thick.

Notes: Per Edan Hughes, Langdon Smith (1870-1959) was born in Massachusetts on June 12, 1870. Smith was a small boy when his family migrated to Denver and, shortly thereafter, to Pasadena. After studying at the Los Angeles School of Art & Design (he taught there in 1910), he went east in 1895 and found employment as an illustrator with the New York Herald. After two years, the lure of the outdoors called him back to California and between 1905-06 he was a working partner in the stage coach line between Mojave and Olancha (CA). After the turn of the century, his career as an illustrator zoomed and between 1907-12 he produced 22 covers for West Coast Magazine as well as many book illustrations. Beginning in 1915 winters were spent in his studio in Los Angeles and the rest of the year in northern California in the small town of Forest City in the Sierra Nevada where he engaged in gold mining and painting. In 1959, he was taken to the Miner's Hospital in Grass Valley with an intestinal disorder and died a few months later on September 9. Smith recorded in oil, watercolor, and pen-and-ink the last of the Old West, mining scenes, and early California. His drawings of cowboys compare favorably with those by Ed Borein. He exhibited Alaska-Yukon Expo (Seattle), 1909.

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