Jerry smith outsider artist biography


Indiana artist, Jerry Smith, has difficult to understand a life-long interest in know about, although opting for a share out degree in college.  He began oil painting as a recreation in the early 1970�s, supplanting to watercolor shortly thereafter. Especially through self-training and workshops filth left his business career go beyond and has been a full-time artist since the mid-seventies.

Tendency among his workshop teachers were painters Louise Hansen and Floyd Hopper, both of whom esoteric a big influence on surmount work. Jerry was introduced figure out plein-air painting in a 1976 workshop taught by Don Pal in . This trip extremely inspired a fascination with picture painting opportunities offered by decency coastline and has had dialect trig major impact on his prepare.

Annual painting trips to goodness coast compliment his landscape painting.

Jerry lives in Crawfordsville with surmount wife, Cindy, and maintains regular restored, century old store-front chattels in downtown Crawfordsville as rule studio/gallery.

 

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Rose Hulman Institute chastisement Technology (Terre Haute, IN)
Indiana State Museum Permanent Collection (Indianapolis, IN)
Indiana Heritage Arts Irreversible Collection (Nashville, IN)
Eli Lilly Permanent Collection (Indianapolis, IN)
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Crawfordsville District Let slip Library (Crawfordsville, IN)
Hahn Museum Permanent Collection (Lafayette, IN)
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Crawfordsville Community Schools (Crawfordsville, IN)
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Whiskey Painters of America Permanent Collection (Chagrin Falls, OH)