Dan Smith

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Dan Smith

American painter and illustrator, 1865–1934
BiographyA native of Greenland who received his early training in Denmark, Dan Smith was a versatile and prolific illustration who began his career in about 1890 as a sketch artist for Leslie's Weekly in New York. He covered the American West until 1897 when he joined Hearst's newspapers and worked as a war artist-correspondent during the Spanish American War. For many years, he drew the covers of the Sunday magazine section of the New York World.
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