A premier American painter, sculptor, lithographer and illustrator of the twentieth century, Lawrence Beall Smith studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of Chicago (PH.D.., 1931) as well as under Harold Zimmerman and Charles Hopkinson, in Boston. Smith began exhibiting his art in 1935 and gained a strong national reputation by 1941 when a one-man exhibition of his art was launched at the Whitney Museum in New York. During World War II, he created posters for the war effort and was an artist for the D-Day landings in Normandy.
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