Ausable River, Adirondack Mountains
12 by 18 inches. Unsigned.
Painted in October, 1874, when Calvin spent about a month in Keene Valley, New York, which was popular with artists at that time. He was with painters Roswell Shurtleff, Kruseman Van Elton, J. Francis Murphy and Arthur Parton There is a photograph at the Adirondack Museum showing these artists sitting on rocks in the Ausable River, although Parton is mis-identified as Winslow Homer in the photograph (see the "Biography" page for a link to the website showing this, plus a sketch of Calvin by Van Elton).
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Portrait of John Calvin Smith
6 by 8 inches.
Signed lower left "C.R.S. March 5, 1881"
This is a painting of Calvin's father, who was a well known engraver and map maker.
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Portrait of a Young Girl
13.25 by 16.5 inches.
Painted in 1878. Signed lower right. This may be
the painting Calvin exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1878
(Une Petite Italienne)
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Copy of a Woman, after Rubens
9.25 by 11 inches. Signed lower left. Painted in 1879.
Copy of the painting "Portrait en Buste d'une Dame" by Peter Paul Rubens in the Louvre, Paris.
A gallery of paintings by Calvin Rae Smith
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Edith
Portrait of Calvin's niece, Edith Louise Draper (Feb. 19, 1874 - ????). Calvin's portrait of her mother, Louse Halliwell Smith (Draper) is shown near the bottom of this page. Painted in 1883.
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Venice at the Docks
14 by 11 inches. Signed lower right "C. Rae Smith" Painted in September 1889.
The painting shows San Giorgio Maggiore from the docks near Piazza San Marco.
He evidently painted several other Venetian scenes in oil and watercolor.
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Copy of a Woman, after Flinck
9.25 by 11 inches. Signed lower left. Painted in 1879.
Copy of the painting "Little Shepherdess Framed by a Window"
by Govert Flinck inthe Louvre, Paris.
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Black Bass
14 by 28 inches. Painted in 1889.
Unsigned.
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Mt. Baker from San Juan Island
18 by 12 inches. Signed lower left "Calvin M. Smith".
This was painted in 1874 after Calvin's 1873 trip to San Juan Island in Washington Territory to visit his brother-in-law Frederick Epstein, who was stationed on San Juan island (possibly Calvin's sister Jeanie was also there?). He apparently also painted views of Admiralty Inlet and Mount Rainier at about the same time (see list of paintings we would like to find).
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Giant Mountain, Adirondacks, from Keene Valley 18 by 12 inches. Unsigned.
Unfinished painting (foreground and most trees not painted in detail). Painted in 1874, at the same time as the Ausable River painting at top.
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Portrait of a Girl (Girl in Yellow) oil on canvas
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Portrait of a Woman Reading
pastel on paper. This is almost certainly the portrait of his wife, Eleanor Cornell, that he mentions in his 1888 diary.
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Italian Flower Girl
oil on canvas Painted in 1877 while Calvin was a student in Paris.
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The Grove, Basin Harbor, Vermont, oil on canvas. This is a painting of the woods and road leading to the summer house Calvin had built in 1896 near Basin Harbor, Vermont.
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Northern Pike
oil on canvas
Unfinished painting, presumably meant to be a match to the Black Bass shown above, as they are similar in style and size.
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In Front of Trinity Church oil on board, 1898
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Clear the Way!
Oil on Canvas 1883; 36 by 48 inches. Signed lower left "C. Rae Smith".
Exhibited in 1883 at the National Academy of design. It was sold in the 1980s under the title "Coasting" or "Sledding" by Vose Galleries. Also listed in the Brooklyn Art Association entry for Calvin Rae Smith. The painting differs from the sketch of the painting from the exhibition catalog of the National Academy of Design, in that the painting is missing two people (one on each side) who appear in the sketch, and the large tree on right differs between the painting and the sketch. His diary on October 20, 1883 mentions "Painted out one of the figures in "Clear the Way"".
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Cornstacks 9 by 6 inches. Painted in September/October 1879, probably on Long Island. signed lower left
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"Raspberries" and "Strawberries" each about 8 by 6 inches. "Raspberries" signed lower right. Date unknown, but "CMS" signature indicates pre-1875 when Calvin changed his name from "Calvin Mortimer" to "Calvin Rae"
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Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company Advertisement Calvin's diary of 1878 mentions many days working on the "Wheeler and Wilson" job. This advertisement for 1878 looks like Calvin's style - did he paint it?
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Wheatfield, Cayuga Lake 9 by 6 inches. Painted in 1881 near Union Sptings, New York. signed lower left
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Portrait of Louise
Oil on canvas on board. Signed and dated 1879 center right. 24 by 30 inches.
According to his 1879 diary, this is a portrait of "Louise" - Calvin's younger sister, Louise Halliwell Smith (Aug. 29,1852 - March 10, 1932), who in 1872 married Charles Henry Draper (May 23,1851 - June 3, 1914). Louise was the mother of Edith, a painting of whom as a little girl is shown near the top of this page. Louise cared for Calvin the last weeks of his life, and he died at her house (see obituaries page of this website).
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Fairy Tales An etching made in 1881, one of which is now in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
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Cutting Pea Brush in Normandy Oil on Canvas 1878 13 by 10 inches