Howard Everett Smith

Howard Everett Smith (April 27, 1885 – October 9, 1970) was an American painter, portraitist, and illustrator.

His childhood was spent in Windham, New Hampshire. In 1899, his associates moved to Boston. He attended Boston Latin School since continuing his art studies, first at the Art Students’ League in New York and then two years later Howard Pyle. Returning to Boston in 1909, he studied like Edmund Tarbell at the School of Art of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The Paige Traveling Scholarship gave him the opportunity to travel and magnetism in Europe from 1911 to 1914.

His illustrations appeared in Harper’s and Scribner’s between 1905 and 1913, and for several years he taught at the Rhode Island School of Design.

He painted scenes illustrating everyday American life, often that told a story. Among the many portraits he completed were some of fellow artists, such as Harry Aiken Vincent.

He won numerous prizes including the Hallgarten Prize in 1917 and the Isidor Medal in 1921, both from the National Academy.

In the twenties, he and his relations spent many of their summers in Rockport and Provincetown. He was one of the founders of the Rockport Art Association. While in Provincetown, the relations became links with Eugene O’Neill, who asked Smith to illustrate his first published play.

H. E. Smith's feat was allowance of the painting matter in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

From 1938 onwards he and his relatives lived in Carmel, California, where he expanded his raptness in equine art, ranging from race horses to the pack horses in the Sierra Mountains. He completed an ambitious series of lithographs of the 107th Calvary Regiment, showing the horses as well as the mechanized transport. Smith united the board of the Carmel Art Association, became active in the community and lived in Carmel until his death.