Jacob Getlar Smith

Jacob Getlar Smith (1898 – October 28, 1958) was an American painter and muralist who worked mostly in New York City. Smith studied at the National Academy of Design in New York from 1919 to 1921.

In 1929, Smith was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of fine arts, for creative work in painting.

He died at Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx, New York, on October 28, 1958.

Works Paintings by Smith:

The Artist's Wife (1927), an oil painting in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum Snow Shovelers (1934), an oil painting in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Murals commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture for the New Deal, in the Federal Building and Post Office, Salisbury, Maryland: Salisbury, Stage at Byrd's Inn and Cotton Patch Murals in the Nyack, New York Post Office, 1936, commissioned by the Treasury Relief Art Project

Smith was the author or editor of books and articles on painting, including:

Editor for Jan Gordon's A step-ladder to painting (New York: Greenberg, c1939) Watercolor painting for the beginner (New York: Watson-Guptill, 1951) The watercolors of Maurice Prendergast (New York: Watson-Guptill, 1956, published in American artist, volume 20, number 2, February 1956)