The Road Home, Gladys Nelson Smith

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Gladys Nelson Smith, The Road Home
Gladys Nelson Smith, The Road Home
Gladys Nelson Smith
The Road Home
late 1930s–1940s
Gladys Nelson Smith
1890–1980
The Road Home, late 1930s–1940s
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: canvas; board; oil
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 40.5 x 45.7 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 15 15/16 x 18 0.9921 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 22 1/2 x 24 7/16 in
Credit line: Bequest of Josephine Nelson through the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Accession number: 1997.0021
Not on display
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Archive Label 1999: Gladys Nelson Smith was born on a farm near Chelsea, Kansas. She attended the University of Kansas from 1912 to 1914, and it was there that she discovered oil painting. Attending KU again 1917 to 1918, she earned a Bachelor of Painting degree. After marrying Errett Smith, she lived with him in Minneapolis, Kansas, until 1923, when they moved to Chicago. She spent from 1924 to the end of her life in Washington, D.C., and Chevy Chase, Maryland, where she and her husband bought a farm. This painting may depict that farm. Smith exhibited and sold her landscapes, still lifes, and portraits at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, as well as at galleries in Topeka. A 1984 exhibition catalogue calls her a "Washington painter from Kansas.