Albert Alexander Smith
Baptism
1929
Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 251 x 325 mm. (9 7/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
Image: 188 x 262 mm. (7 3/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Lorraine and Mark Schapiro, Baltimore
Object Number
2000.37
Albert Alexander Smith spent most of his career in Paris, moving permanently in 1920 after military service abroad in World War I. Creating more than 220 prints, drawings, and paintings in his lifetime, Smith’s work dealt with subject matter including racial discrimination and stereotypes, European tourist scenes, and rural southern scenes
of Black American life as seen here.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2000; Ed Ogul, Paramour Fine Arts, Franklin, MI
Morgan Dowty, BMA, "1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA," June 13 - October 28, 2018.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America," June 7, 2006 - December 3, 2006.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America," June 7, 2006 - December 3, 2006.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: lower left in stone: "ALBERT SMITH/30"; lower left in graphite: "18/100"; lower right in graphite: "Albert A. Smith"; by later hand, lower center in graphite: "212"; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: "g1H2gP / 5"
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