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Vernon Smith (1894 - 1969)
Born in Cortland, New York, Vernon Smith studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts (now Parsons), before moving to Boston where he designed theater sets. In 1921 he moved to the Cape Cod town of Orleans, where he spent most of his career.

Smith was the District Supervisor of the Southeastern Massachusetts division of the WPA and was one of the few artists selected to participate in the WPA's Alaska Art Project in 1937. This experience inspired some of Smith's later work which includes elements of Native Alaskan imagery.

Six woodcarvings were exhibited at his 1947 one-person exhibition at Kraushaar Gallery in New York. With titles such as Sea Rhythm and Siren, the exhibited woodcarvings were similar to Sea Forms in their reference to the sea.

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