Lawrence Beall Smith (1909 - 1995) NY, "Bacchus"Lawrence Beall Smith (1909 - 1995) NY, "Bacchus" framed sculpture. Numbered 210/5000. From the Silver Guild. Slight damage to the upper right quadrant. Lawrence Beall Smith, painter, lithographer, illustrator and stone sculptor, wasborn in Washington, D.C. in 1909. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, and at the University of Chicago, receiving a Ph.D. degree in 1931. He also studied in Boston and Gloucester, Massachusetts with Ernest Thurn, CharlesHopkinson and Harold Zimmerman. His reputation as an artist was secured by a one-man show in 1941 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Smith had begun to exhibit his work in 1935. His work is in the collections of theMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; University of Chicago; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis;Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California; and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. The art collections of the United States Air Force and United States Navy, both in Washington, D.C., hold examples of Beall's paintings and prints