Joel Smith

Joel Smith was born in Draper, Utah, in 1929 and grew up in Provo with summers on the family farm in Logandale, Nevada. He attended BYU High School in Provo then earned a degree in Art Practice from Brigham Young University where he studied with Roman Andrus and Brent Larson. He also studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, and while earning a Master’s degree in Art from the University of Cali￾fornia at Berkeley, he resorted to fruit picking, window display, dish￾washing, cannery and lumber mill work, social welfare, and insurance investigation to finance his education. Since completing his degree, he has taught life drawing, basic drawing, design, watercolor, and painting at seven universities throughout the U.S. and in Canada. He has been in many exhibitions internationally and his artwork is included in noted museum collections, including among others the museum of Modern Art in New York; Tate Gallery, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; and the National Gallery of Canada. Since he left teaching in 1994, he paints morning, noon, aņd night in Colchester, Illinois, near Nauvoo where he has his studio. He takes occasional painting trips to southern Utah.