Jack Wilkinson Smith
(b.1873, New Jersey - d. 1949, Monterey Park, CA)
UNTITLED (SEASCAPE WITH ROCKS)
c. 1930, Oil on canvas, 46 x 50 inches
Jonathan Club collection
Jack Wilkinson Smith is known as one of the finest masters of early California Impressionist painting. For many years he maintained a studio in Alhambra, California. Smith organized the Biltmore Salon in 1923 to exhibit and sell traditional Western landscape paintings.
In 1926 Smith became the Jonathan Club’s first Life Member Artist, granted in trade for art to fill the empty walls of its new building at 545 South Figueroa Street. One of his best known subjects is of Laguna Beach.
