Ernest Smith (artist)

Sky Woman (1936)

Ernest Peter Smith (October 28, 1907 – February 25, 1975) was a Native American artist from the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.[1] Smith painted mostly traditional Seneca myths and stories of daily life in the Seneca village he grew up in. In the 1930s Smith produced a large series of paintings documenting Seneca life, as part of the WPA Indian Art Project.

  1. ^ "The Last O-Nyiah-Gway-Hay | National Museum of the American Indian". americanindian.si.edu.