Frank Vining Smith (1879 - 1967) Oil on Canvas, Signed Lower Left, Measures (26 x 33 inches) w/frame (30 x 37 inches) Born in Whitman, Massachusetts, Frank Vining Smith studied at the nearby Boston Museum School with Philip Hale, Frank Benson, and Edmund C. Tarbell, and later attended the Central Ontario Design School in Toronto. After a short time as a manager for a shoe store in Pennsylvania, he was given the opportunity to work as a newspaper artist for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. He happily moved to New York City and attended the Art Students League in his free time. Around 1900, Smith moved to Boston, where he worked on the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe drawing advertisements and cartoons. During World War I, he was in charge of camouflage work in Philadelphia and New York and by 1925, now settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, Smith decided to quit his newspaper job to concentrate whole-heartedly on painting marine pictures.

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