We recommend the following E. A. Smith related sites
Named for Arizona's Territorial and State Historian. The Museum website includes a fine biographical sketch of Effie Anderson Smith, as an honoree of the Territorial Women's Memorial Rose Garden.
Effie resides at the Arizona Pioneers' Home during her final years (1951-55), after having lived and painted in Cochise County since 1895 (over 55 years). Established by an act of the Territorial Legislature in 1909, the Pioneers' Home opened in 1911 to repay Arizona's founding residents.
Profile of Effie Anderson Smith. [note: correct birth info is 1869 near Nashville, Arkansas, otherwise bio is generally correct]
The mining town that was home to the A. Y. Smith family from 1896 into the 1940's. From here Effie went off in all directions for her 'plein air' painting sessions in the nearby desert and mountains.
Historic and Current Images of Pearce and the nearby mill at Fittsburg may be seen at Ghosttowns.com .
- A bustling and vibrant railroad and smelter town visited often by the Smith's. Effie resided at the famed Gadsden Hotel periodically during the late 1930's and '40's, unveiling many new works here. One of her finest Grand Canyon paintings graced the lobby of the Gadsden for more than 10 years.
- Douglas historian Cindy Hayostek publishes many insightful articles and books on her home town and surrounding communities in Cochise County, including the quarterly magazine Borderland Chronicles .
Effie Biography
The most complete biography available with many newly uncovered insights into the life and art of Effie Anderson Smith. LIMITED EDITION
Available to order from Haystack Publications.
$5.00
Reviving Effie’s Legacy
Ann Japenga continues her wonderful series California Desert Art with a very encouraging article about Effie's art, and our efforts to restore greater understanding and appreciation of Effie's artistic legacy.
Effie’s Early Life in Arkansas
Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
An updated biographical sketch on Effie, including recently uncovered facts about her youth in and around the Arkansas towns of Nashville, Hope, Washington and Arkadelphia is available at this website maintained by the Central Arkansas Library System.
Could America Have Also Been the Birthplace of Impressionism?
The story of Effie Anderson Smith, forgotten impressionist from the American frontier. - by Kelsey McKinney on MEDIUM.com
Exhibition Catalogue
An Exhibition Catalogue is now available from our 2012 Arizona Statehood Centennial exhibit in E-Book (PDF) format. We are happy to provide a copy to interested collectors, art historians, dealers and appraisers.
Direct inquiries to: E.A. Smith Archive
Reference Works which include a Biographical Sketch of E. A. Smith:
An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West
by P. & M. Y. Kovinick (1998)
University of Texas Press, Austin
Artists in California, 1786-1940
by E. M. Hughes (2002)
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento
Profiles of E.A. Smith can be found in these Periodicals:
Mrs. A. Y. Smith, Arizona Artist
by Marian Compton
Progressive Arizona and the Great Southwest
VOL. 9, No. 5 - November 1929
Arizona's Forgotten Artist, Mrs. A. Y. Smith
by O. Carroll Arnold
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Pioneer Painter
by Myriam Toles
Cochise County Historical Journal
VOL. 19, No. 3 - Fall 1989
Pioneer Painter: Effie Anderson Smith
by Cindy Hayostek
Borderland Chronicles
No. 17 - January 2012