ALBERT ALEXANDER SMITH (1896 - 1940) Church, Caen, France.
Lithograph, circa 1930. 203x127 mm; 8x5 inches. full margins. Signed in ink, lower right. Numbered 2/50 in ink, lower left. Titled in ink on the mat.
Provenance: Albert Alexander Smith; Alfred Renforth Smith, father of the artist (1940s); Reverend Frederick Rickford Meyers, Detroit, MI (1950s); private collection, Michigan (2023).
Exhibited: Harmon Foundation, New York, with the label on the frame back.
This scarce print is part of an incredible trove of artworks by Albert Alexander Smith recently discovered in a 1920s large steamer trunk. It belonged to his father Alfred R. Smith who worked as his son's agent in New York. In the 1950s, Alfred Smith shipped this trunk to the Rev. Frederick R. Meyers of Detroit, a fellow World War I veteran and friend of Albert Alexander Smith who had become a minister. The undisturbed trunk was recently purchased from a storage facility and unpacked for the first time seventy years later.
