Albert Alexander Smith
After Market, Nice
c. 1920s
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Albert Alexander Smith
After Market, Nice
c. 1920s
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 320 x 255 mm. (12 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Plate: 200 x 130 mm. (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frances K. and George Alderson, Baltimore
Object Number
2015.264
Albert Alexander Smith spent most of his career in Paris, moving permanently in 1920 after military service abroad in World War I. Creating more than 220 prints, drawings, and paintings in his lifetime, Smith’s work dealt with subject matter including racial discrimination and stereotypes, European tourist scenes, and rural southern scenes
of Black American life as seen here.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2015; George and Frances Alderson, Catonsville, MD
Morgan Dowty, BMA, "1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA," June 13 - October 28, 2018.
Inscribed: Recto: below image left, in black ink: "3/75"; below image right, in black ink: "Albert A. Smith"; below image center, in black ink: "AU BOUT DU MARCHE / NICE - FRANCE"; at lower center, in graphite: "10 x 12 3/[indecipherable]" Verso: none
Markings: None
