April 2024 Newsletter
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Clarice Smith’s Paintings on Display at University House
The artwork will be on view through December 31, 2025.
Big Race: The Contemporary Vision of Clarice Smith Members Reception
The National Sporting Library and Museum celebrated the opening of Big Race: The Contemporary Vision of Clarice Smith at a members reception on February 10, 2024.
Clarice Smith: Power and Grace
By Clarice Smith, Claudia Pfeiffer, Melanie Leigh Mathewes
The lushly illustrated catalog accompanying the exhibit Big Race: The Contemporary Vision of Clarice Smith at the National Sporting Library & Museum through January 16, 2026.
Remembering Clarice Smith by Claudia Pfeiffer
“There are people you meet in your life who change you. Clarice Smith was one of those people. …” Claudia Pfeiffer, the Deputy Director and George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator at the National Sporting Library & Museum
“Big Race: The Contemporary Vision of Clarice Smith” at the National Sporting Library & Museum
At the National Sporting Library & Museum, January 11, 2024 to January 16, 2026
Art in Embassies Wraps up 60th anniversary with Democracy Collections
The Clarice Smith Collection is offered by the artist’s son, David Bruce Smith. The Democracy Collections will advance art diplomacy at U.S. embassies around the globe.
The 2024 Grateful American Book Prize is accepting entries
The Prize comes with a $13,000 cash award in commemoration of the 13 original Colonies, a lifetime membership at the New-York Historical Society, and a medallion created by Smith’s mother, the renowned artist, Clarice Smith.
Art in Embassies Announces The Clarice Smith Collection
As the United States approaches its 250th year, the State Department’s Art in Embassies program is working with cultural institutions, artists, families, and galleries to curate art collections that promote U.S. diplomacy. The first collection, The Clarice Smith Collection, comprises 72 artworks by Washington, D.C.-based artist Clarice Smith.
Clarice Smith’s Paintings Chosen for the Art in Embassies Inaugural “Democracy Collection”
A repository containing 72 of Clarice Smith’s paintings has been chosen for the Clarice Smith Collection, the inaugural “Democracy Collection” for the US Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies (AIE). These paintings will be on long-term loan with the State Department to be made available to US Ambassadors for display in their embassies and residences throughout the world.
“Mattie and the Machine”
by Lynn Ng Quezon Wins 2023 Grateful American Book Prize
WASHINGTON, DC, October 3, 2023 — Mattie and the Machine [Santa Monica Press], a debut novel by Lynn Ng Quezon, has been selected to receive the 2023 Grateful American Book Prize, according to co-founder David Bruce Smith. The Santa Monica Press called it “a fictionalized yet historically accurate account of Margaret E. Knight’s fight to […]
Suffragettes
Suffragettes, a triptych stained glass mural by artist Clarice Smith, at the New-York Historical Society.
Submit Your Book for the 2023 Grateful American Book Prize
The 2023 Grateful American Book Prize is now accepting submissions. They should be works of non-fiction, fiction, or biographies suitable for 7th to 9th graders, published between August 1, 2022, and July 31, 2023. “Over the past several decades schools have gradually de-emphasized history in the classroom with the result that kids today do not […]
Clarice Smith, artist and D.C. philanthropist, dies at 88
Clarice Smith with one of her paintings in 1996. (John T. Consoli/University of Maryland) By Matt Schudel – Washington Post December 16, 2021 at 8:04 p.m. EST Clarice Smith, an artist whose paintings have been exhibited around the world and who, with her late husband, donated hundreds of millions of dollars to educational and cultural […]
The World Through the Eyes of a UMD Benefactor
Six paintings by Clarice Smith were installed yesterday in her namesake building, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. The exhibition honors the artistic side of the late philanthropist, who, along with her family, generously supported UMD.
CLARICE SMITH 1933-2021
Washington Post – December 16, 2021
Clarice Smith, artist and D.C. philanthropist, dies at 88
By Matt Schudel
NEW EXHIBIT 2021
American Contempories Gerald Peters Gallery
Several of Clarice Smith’s paintings are included.
HBO’s “The Undoing” Features Four of Clarice Smith’s paintings
The HBO mini-series stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant. Four paintings were picked for the set and are featured in Nicole Kidman’s New York City apartment.
New Exhibit 2020
THE WINTER SHOW
Winter Armory Show, Park Avenue Armory, January 24 to February 2, 2020.
Clarice Smith will be featuring her work produced in collaboration with metal sculptor Albert Paley, entitled Triptych. It is a large piece and she painted the three panels, front and back, that fit into the metal structure created by Albert Paley.
The Gerald Peters Gallery is putting Triptych on exhibit at their booth.
NEW EXHIBITION 2019
WINTER ESCAPE
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York City Feb 18 – Mar 22, 2019
New Work: White Cascade, 2019, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches
Latest Stained Glass Work
A penchant for experimentation led Clarice Smith to expand from painting into the arena of leaded glass, inspired in part by the works of the women designers at Tiffany Studios. Through color, composition, and subject, her Herons in Flight (2018) evokes the possibility of freedom in collective uplift. Made in collaboration with Venturella Studio of New York City, the transom window is installed on the fourth floor of the New-York Historical Society near its Center for Women’s History.
Press
Remembering Clarice Smith by Claudia Pfeiffer
“There are people you meet in your life who change you. Clarice Smith was one of those people. …” Claudia Pfeiffer, the Deputy Director and George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator at the National Sporting Library & Museum
The World Through the Eyes of a UMD Benefactor
Six paintings by Clarice Smith were installed yesterday in her namesake building, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. The exhibition honors the artistic side of the late philanthropist, who, along with her family, generously supported UMD.
A painter’s unbridled hand matches a sculptor’s experiment with twisting steel
Washington Post – December 8, 2016
A painter’s unbridled hand matches a sculptor’s experiment with twisting steel
By Mark Jenkins
Review of Clarice Smith’s Kreeger Museum exhibition in the “Weekend Section” of The Washington Post.
The Power and Grace of Clarice Smith
Middleburg Life – July 2014
The Power and Grace of Clarice Smith
By Vicky Moon