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Paintings Arrive
Background
Smith Collection
Restoration
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Walter Washington Smith's paintings have hung
in renowned galleries in both United States and France.
Most of his work was done from the 1920's to the 1940's,
by which time he was living near Philadelphia.
Born in Clearfield, PA in 1887, Smith lived for many
years in his father's hometown as a child and as a young adult in the
1920's and early Depression years, when he operated a studio on West
Baltimore Street in the Stover building located in Greencastle.
Smith's talents spread from the walls of the A.M.E.
Church, where he painted religious scenes, to the raincoats of his nieces
and nephews, which he adorned with the popular comic characters of the
day.
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