Lot 143
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (American/South Carolina, 1876-1958), "Sunrise", watercolor on artist board, signed lower right, 21 5/8 in. x 15 3/8 in., attractively framed Note: A founding member of the Charleston Etchers Club, Smith studied the Japanese woodblock collection of a cousin and built on those observations to produce a number of prints before giving up the medium to pursue watercolor fulltime. It was in this medium that Smith produced her best work, combining her study of Japanese art with her observations of the Lowcountry to create flowing tonalist watercolors, an excellent example of which is "Sunrise", probably painted on a barrier island near her home. Born in 1876 to an established Charleston family, Alice Ravenel Huger Smith became an author, preservationist, and most importantly, an artist. Smith wrote and illustrated books that brought to life the culture of the Carolina Lowcountry including The Pringle House on King Street (1914), The Dwelling Houses of Charleston (1917), and A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties (1936).
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