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AEDMary Smith Oil Painting, Three Chicks
About Seller
4310 Papermill Dr. NW
Knoxville, TN 37909
United States
Case Auctions is based in Knoxville, Tennessee, where our gallery is located, with satellite offices in Nashville, Tennessee and Kingsport, TN – but our reach is worldwide. Established in 2005, we conduct cataloged auctions of investment-quality art and antiques under the stewardship of knowledgeabl...Read more
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LiveAug 1, 2026
Live 2-Day Auction at our Knoxville Gallery featuring 1,300+ lots from fine Southern estates and private and museum collections. Sale starts Sat. August 1 at 9 AM EST with lots #1-714 and continues Sun. August 2 at 10 AM EST with lots #715-1320. Be sure to view BOTH catalogs. Case Auctions bid@caseantiques.com
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- Lot Description
Mary Russell Smith (American, 1842 - 1878), oil on card painting that depicts three fledgling chicks who stand beside their mother, shown only from the neck down. With three pencil sketches of chicks en verso. Unsigned. Housed in a modern giltwood frame with textile mat and gilt fillet. Card: 5 in. H x 7 3/4 in. W. Sight: 4 5/16 in. H x 7 1/16 in. W. Framed: 12 1/4 in. H x 14 3/4 in. W.
Artist's Biography: (Adapted from AskArt & Charleston Renaissance Gallery) Mary Russell Smith is best remembered for her intimate genre scenes featuring chickens and barnyard life. She came from a prominent artistic family: her parents were Russell Smith and Mary Priscilla Wilson Smith, and her brother, Xanthus Smith, was also an artist.
She was born at Rockhill, the family’s countryside home just north of Philadelphia, and later lived at their estate, Edgehill, in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, for the remainder of her life. Her artistic training began at home under her mother, an accomplished painter of flowers and still lifes. By the age of fourteen, Mary had already begun creating her own work. Her talent developed quickly, and she exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1859 and 1869, with additional showings in 1876 and 1878. Over the course of her brief career, she completed more than three hundred paintings, which she meticulously recorded in her personal ledger, Account of Work Done by Mary Smith, Artist (now held in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution).
In his 1867 publication Book of the Artists, Henry Tuckerman praised her work for its elegance, accuracy, and technical ability, particularly in her depictions of birds—her primary subject. At Edgehill, she kept and cared for the chickens she painted, working directly from observation. Her compositions often blend these subjects with elements of landscape or still life, as seen in works that pair chicks with floral arrangements, rendered with refined color and delicate attention to texture.
Condition
Overall very good condition within sight area. With pinhole punctures along edges, outside of sight area, and area of loss to lower right corner plus negligible loss to upper left corner, both also outside of sight area.
- Provenance
Collection of Patricia and Paul DeHaan, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Joy Piscopo, F.O. Bailey, Portland, Maine.
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