Elmer Boyd Smith
Elmer Boyd Smith (May 31, 1860 – October 5, 1943) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books and painter. Smith was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and studied art in Paris with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian from 1881 to 1884, and also with H. Lefort for several years. In the early 1900s, he moved to Wilton, Connecticut, where he spent the remainder of his life.
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Elmer Boyd Smith
Elmer Boyd Smith · Page 122 of Brown, Abbie Farwell (1902). "In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales" Illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. Houghton, Mifflin Co. · Public domain
- Name
- Elmer Boyd Smith
- Born
- 31 May 1860
- Birthplace
- Saint John, New Brunswick
- Died
- 5 October 1943
- Place of death
- Wilton, Connecticut, US
- Occupation
- Illustrator, Writer
- Nationality
- Canada
- Education
- Académie Julian
- Languages
- English · French
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Elmer Boyd Smith (May 31, 1860 – October 5, 1943) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books and painter. Smith was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and studied art in Paris with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian from 1881 to 1884, and also with H. Lefort for several years. In the early 1900s, he moved to Wilton, Connecticut, where he spent the remainder of his life.
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He illustrated more than seventy books for both adults and children, beginning with My Village in 1896, written while he was living in France. His first children's book was The Story of Noah's Ark in 1905.
"A spectral looking figure stalked from out the darkness"; Illus. in: The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper. Boston and New
Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd), 1860-1943
Anna Karenina - Frontispiece.
Author Leo Tolstoy Translator Nathan Haskell Dole Artist Elmer Boyd Smith
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Key facts
• Name — Elmer Boyd Smith • Born — 31 May 1860 • Birthplace — Saint John, New Brunswick • Died — 5 October 1943 • Place of death — Wilton, Connecticut, US • Occupation — Illustrator, Writer
Selected works
Selected works
• The Story of Noah’s Ark, 1905 • The Circus, 1909 • Robinson Crusoe, 1909 • Early Life of Mr. Man Before Noah, 1914 • After They Came Out of the Ark: Completing the Story of Noah, 1918 • The Story of Our Country, 1920 • Fun In the Radio World, 1923 • The Country Book, 1924 • So Long Ago, 1944
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Elmer Boyd Smith is recorded as novelist, writer, illustrator, painter and artist.
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1860
Elmer Boyd Smith born at Saint John.
1943
Elmer Boyd Smith died at Wilton.
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