painter and commercial artist, lived at Waverley, Sydney, with her family. At the age of five she startled her parents by drawing 'Ladies standing on their hands’. Her parents encouraged her to continue to draw and later sent her to East Sydney Technical College. One of her teachers was Frank Medworth , the head art teacher and husband of Muriel Medworth , who said in 1946 when she graduated aged 19 that she was 'undoubtedly one of the best students ever to graduate from the college’. One of her graduate drawings, Myriam , was reproduced in The New Commercial Art in Australia (Melbourne, n.d. [c.1947]), a commercial art prospectus issued by the Melbourne correspondence Art Training Institute in Melbourne where Smith was a part-time teacher (employed from Sydney). Like many art students, she worked as a commercial artist after college, mainly drawing advertisements and illustrations for newspapers and magazines such as Pix. (There is some speculation that Smith may have illustrated a Pix cover c.1946).
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