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September 2023 Newsletter

SHOOT THE MOON

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August 2023 Newsletter

JUSTICE ALWAYS TRIUMPHS

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July 2023 Newsletter

A LOOK TO LIBERTY

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June 2023 Newsletter

PRELUDE TO PROGRESS

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Suffragettes

Suffragettes, a triptych stained glass mural by artist Clarice Smith, at the New-York Historical Society.    

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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 […]

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April 2023 Newsletter

LOVELY LADIES

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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 […]

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The World Through the Eyes of a UMD Benefactor

Clarice Smith’s Paintings Go on Display at Her Namesake Building Maryland Today – February 14, 2023 By Sala Levin ’10

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NEW EXHIBIT 2021

American Contempories Gerald Peters Gallery

Several of Clarice Smith’s paintings are included.

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HBO MINI SERIES 2020

Clarice Smith’s paintings picked for set. The new HBO mini-series “The Undoing” stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant. Four of Clarice Smith’s paintings were picked for the set and are featured in Nicole Kidman’s New York City apartment.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Press

Clarice Smith Accepts Honorary Doctorate from George Washington University – 2012