| Lowell Ellsworth Smith | ||
| Birth Date: 1924 |
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| Death Date: 2008 Artist Gallery |
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| Lowell Ellsworth Smith was born in 1924 and graduated from Lehman High School in Canton.
Early in his life, his father, local artist Ellsworth P. Smith, and his mother, a musician, motivated their son. His father painted in watercolors and was art director of the Hoover Vacuum Sweeper Company in Canton, Ohio for thirty-seven years.
While Smith was growing up, the family vacations were often to the artists’ colony at Rockport, Massachusetts, where he was exposed to the work of Gordon Grant, Ted Kautzky, Emile Gruppe and Roy Wilhelm. These men often encouraged the young artist to work with them.
After Smith received his BA from Miami University and graduated from the Famous Artist School in Wesport, Connecticut, he spent twelve years as a commercial artist. He gave up his full-time job in 1960 to devote his time to painting and teaching.
“The ‘on location’ paintings or sketches often turn out to be the most rewarding and exciting," states Smith. "They may lead to a larger work or may stand on their own; sometimes having more truth and enthusiasm than one done later on which may be more contrived or controlled. I try to be honest in my painting”. Watercolor, a favorite medium, affords Smith the power to create quickly and accurately with a minimal of equipment.
Some of Smith’s favorite haunts were Rockport and the old fishing village of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the Blue Ridge Mountains, the American West and Mexico.
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