Robin Artine Smith

Robin Artine Smith (1903–1991/92) took the teachings of watercolorist Eliot O’Hara — renowned for his subtle renderings of natural scenes — and gave his lessons a modern bent by applying them to city scenes, imbuing skylines and bird’s-eye views with a unique delicacy and glow. Born in Warren, Arkansas in 1903, Smith initially studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University. From 1927 to 1932 she was the art director for the Chicago-based furniture company Revell and Co., then spent time traveling through Vienna and freelancing in New York City, creating vibrant, art-deco-style ads, before settling in Dallas, Texas in 1940. The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts held multiple one-woman shows for Smith in the 1940s and early 1950s.