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This is a nice landscape by the noted listed California painter, Ernest Browning Smith. It is a 27" x 22" oil on canvas, which has been relined. Less than 1% restoration detected under ultraviolet, signed lower left. Smith was a painter who has a devoted following by collectors, even to this day. No one else painted like him and his paintings are instantly recognizable. This painting is typical of his pointillist style that hearkens back to Seurat. My friend pastor Roger Friend was such a fan of Smith that he visited the locations the paintings were painted from and I believe that he told me w this was once in the San Gabriel Mountains. The following is a bio from Hughes: Landscape painter. Born in Brimfield, MA on Nov. 30, 1866. Smith was educated at the Hitchcock Academy and then worked in law and business for several years before settling in Los Angeles in 1894. He was also an accomplished musician and played French horn in the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. Without the benefit of art training, he began painting in 1903 in watercolor, but soon switched to oil. In 1911 he left for Europe and studied in various art centers until after WWI. Returning to Los Angeles, he made many painting excursions into the Sierra and the deserts of southern California. A bachelor, Smith died in Los Angeles on April 26, 1951. Member: Calif. Art Club; Laguna Beach AA. Exh: Blanchard Bldg (LA), 1909; Del Monte Art Gallery, 1909-12; Calif. Art Club, 1914-29; SFAA, 1916; Calif. State Fair, 1925 (prize), 1930; LA Co. Fair (Pomona), 1925; LACMA, 1932 (solo). In: LACMA. SCA AAA 1917-33; WWAA 1936-53; G&S.
dated 1914

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