Smith, Alice R. Huger (Alice Ravenel Huger), 1876-

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Dates:
Birth 1876
Death 1958

Biographical notes:

Charleston, South Carolina artist and historian. She was the daughter of Daniel Elliott Huger Smith (1846-1932), a Charleston businessman and author. Alice R.H. Smith died in 1958.

From the description of Alice R. Huger Smith papers, ca. 1914-1952. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32140008

Charleston, S.C. artist and writer. Smith gained fame for her watercolor paintings of South Carolina lowcountry scenes. She was the daughter of Daniel Elliott Huger Smith (1846-1932), a Charleston cotton broker, author, and rice plantation owner whose books "The Dwelling Houses of Charleston" (1917) and "The Life of Charles Fraser" (1924) she co-authored and illustrated. She also illustrated "The Carolina Low-Country" and "A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties" by Herbert Ravenel Sass. She died in 1958.

From the description of Alice Ravenel Huger Smith papers, 1905-1974. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36793915

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Subjects:

  • Architecture
  • Charleston (S.C.) in art
  • Dwellings
  • Gardens, American
  • Interior decoration
  • Plantation life
  • Plantations

Occupations:

  • Women authors, American
  • Artists
  • Authors
  • Women artists

Places:

  • Wappaoolah Plantation (S.C.) (as recorded)
  • South Carolina--Charleston (as recorded)
  • South Carolina in art (as recorded)
  • Charleston (S.C.) (as recorded)
  • South Carolina (as recorded)
  • South Carolina (as recorded)
  • Charleston (S.C.) (as recorded)
  • Mulberry Plantation (Berkeley County, S.C.) (as recorded)