Howard Everett Smith was born in West Windham, New Hampshire on April 28, 1885. He studied at the Art Students League with George Bridgman and then later attended Howard Pyle's lectures and criticisms in 1907 and 1908. He then left Wilmington to pursue his interest in landscape painting and to study at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts school under Edmund Tarbell. He later specialized in portraint paintings and graphic art, working in lithography. Additionally, he taught at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Smith's works of illustration appeared in Ladies' Home Journal, Scribner's, and Harper's Monthly. He specialized in rural subjects.
Sources:
Rowland Elzea and Elizabeth H. Hawkes, editors. A Small School of Art: The Students of Howard Pyle. Wilmington, DE: The Delaware Art Museum, 1980.
