Edith Agnes Smith (October 2, 1867 – 1954) was a Canadian painter and teacher. She was one of the native members of the Maritime Art Association and served as President of the Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts.
She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 2, 1867, one of four kids of Benjamin Smith, a without difficulty known Halifax sober goods merchant and Anna Maria Smith. She studied art at the Victoria School of Art and Design. She continued her studies at the Chelsea School of Art in London, United Kingdom and the Boston Art Club in Boston, Massachusetts.
In Halifax Smith was keen in the artistic community as a member of the Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts and committed to find the museum a surviving home. She was also working with assembling the nascent museum’s collection, including works by works by Frances Jones Bannerman, Lewis Smith, Stanley Royle, Marion Bond, and Arthur Lismer.
From 1915-1950 Smith taught at the Halifax Ladies’ College (now Armbrae Academy).
She exhibited her art frequently at the Nova Scotia Society of Artists, the Maritime Art Association, and the National Gallery of Canada.
Smith died at Petite Riviere, Nova Scotia in 1954.
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