Florence Smithburn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American painter
Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1904
Place of Birth: New Augusta, Mississippi, United States
Date of Death: 04-Feb-1989
Profession: painter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Florence Smithburn
- Florence Bartley Smithburn (October 16, 1904 – January 31, 1989) was an American painter and printmaker. Born in New Augusta, Indiana, a community which has since been incorporated into Indianapolis, Florence Bartley graduated from the local high school in 1922.
- From then until 1926 she attended the John Herron Art Institute; she also had lessons at the Grand Central School of Art and the Art Students League of New York.
- Her instructors included William Forsyth, Paul Hadley, George Pearse Ennis, Richard Lahey, and Harry Sternberg.
- She showed work at the Hoosier Salon in 1929 and 1930 and at the Indiana State Fair from 1929 until 1934, winning prizes from both entities; she continued exhibiting for the rest of her career, showing mainly watercolors and drawings.
- On June 17, 1927, she married physician Kenneth C.
- Smithburn, moving with him to New York City in 1930.
- In May 1937, she had a one person show of her paintings at the Argent Galleries.
- She eventually accompanied him to Africa, after a stint visiting the galleries of England, France, and Italy.
- In 1938 the couple settled in Entebbe, where for ten years she painted scenes of local native life while her husband researched yellow fever for the Rockefeller Research Institute.
- She contributed her artistic skills to the work of the Yellow Fever Research Institute (currently the Uganda Virus Research Institute) by creating maps to illustrate their scientific publications.
- Smithburn rarely sold her paintings due to financial security; her husband died in 1974, and she died in Indianapolis in 1989.Stylistically, Smithburn has been characterized as a Regionalist painter.
- One of her lithographs, Untitled (Gust of Air From Subway Grate) of c.
- 1935, is owned by the National Gallery of Art, and the Herbert F.
- Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.
- She is also represented in the collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Georgia Museum of Art.
- She was a member of the Hoosier Salon, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors (NAWPS), and the Indiana Artists Association.
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