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An awesome painting of a Red Fox by Daniel Smith wildlife artist

Daniel Smith is one of the top Wildlife Artist in the United States.

Daniel Smith: Taking Wildlife Realism To The Next Level by Todd Wilkinson

Painter Daniel Smith, who is equal parts hermit, aesthete, and explorer of the outback, has never thought of himself as being a visual provocateur.

Who could have thought that classical wildlife art would one day be considered simultaneously accessible and avant-garde? Who would have guessed that images of animals would loom large as perhaps the most potent icons of our time?

Animals are telltale totems, not only of the past, but of a yet uncertain future. The opening of the one-man exhibition, “Animal Magnetism: The Wildlife Art of Daniel Smith” at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in 2008 was validation of Smith’s growing stature in this unique and provocative artistic genre. “In my opinion, Dan Smith is truly one of America’s great wildlife painters,” says John Geraghty, board member of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles and a prominent art collector.

Over the last decade, Smith’s original pieces have been exhibited at, or become part of permanent collections at the Eiteljorg, the Autry, the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, The Bennington Center for the Arts, The Wildlife Experience, The Leanin Tree Museum of Western Art and the Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History.

Today, Smith and his wife, Liz, the parents of three grown children, live at the end of a dirt road outside of Bozeman, Montana at the edge of a national forest.

Smith resides here, he says, to maintain a connection to the real wild West. For the artist, it is, by design, never far away, as evidenced by the photographs he has taken of mountain lions, moose, black bears, elk, and mule deer that roam just beyond the vaulted window of his studio. “One of the most rewarding and inspiring elements of my job is the fieldwork,” Smith says. “It is the genesis of all of my paintings.”

 

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  • Graceful Display swan Graceful Display - Swan by Daniel Smith - Framed

    Graceful Display - Swan by Daniel Smith - Framed

    Giclée Canvas Limited EditionSigned by Dan SmithApprox Framed Size16"w x 20"t Daniel Smith: Taking Wildlife Realism To The Next Level by Todd Wilkinson Painter Daniel Smith, who is equal parts hermit, aesthete, and explorer of the...

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    Radiant Repose, by Daniel Smith LIMITED EDITION CANVAS framed in gallery

    Radiant Repose, by Daniel Smith LIMITED EDITION CANVAS - Framed

    Radiant Repose, by Daniel SmithCougar - Mountain Lion Paintingby Daniel SmithLimited Edition CanvasImage size: 34"w x 17"h. Framed size: 40.5"w x 23.5"hEdition Size: 75Radiant Repose is on display & framed at Ashley's Art Gallery (as of Feb...

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  • painting by Daniel Smith Autumn Excursion - Fox by Daniel Smith

    Autumn Excursion - Fox by Daniel Smith

    Autumn Excursionby Daniel SmithLIMITED EDITION CANVASLimited Edition of: 50 Image Size: 24"w x 12" Daniel SmithDaniel Smith, one of America’s foremost wildlife artists, enjoys wide acclaim for his depictions of the natural world. He...

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    Sun Struck, by Daniel Smith LIMITED EDITION CANVAS Awesome Frame

    Sun Struck, by Daniel Smith LE CANVAS - Framed

    Limited Edition CanvasImage size: 32"w x 21"h. Framed size: 37"w x 26"tEdition Size: 100  When the Eiteljorg Museum presented wildlife artist Daniel Smith with the Quest for the West Art Show and Sale’s first-ever Artist of...

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    Deep Forest Descent - Lynx by Daniel Smith

    Deep Forest Descent - Lynx by Daniel SmithLIMITED EDITION CANVASLimited Edition of: 50 Image Size: 22"w x 22"h.This lynx, titled Deep Forest Descent, was Dan Smith's featured painting for the Quest for the West Show at the Eiteljorg Museum...

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    Prickly Pursuit, by Daniel Smith SMALLWORK CANVAS EDITION

    Prickly Pursuit, by Daniel Smith CANVAS EDITION - Framed

    Prickly Pursuitby Daniel SmithSigned by the artistCougar and porcupine paintingnow in a Greenwich Workshop Limited Edition canvas. Limited Edition Canvas FramedImage size: 18"w x 8"h. Framed Size: 21" x 11"h Edition Size: 100In...

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    Sea Eagle by Daniel Smith - Print on Canvas

    Sea Eagle by Daniel Smith - Print on Canvas

    Sea Eagle by Daniel SmithCanvas size: 20" x 30" In its day, the trawler ""Sea Eagle" ventured forth, painted and proud. surviving storms at sea, it returned to shore with its catch, time and again. Now abandoned, weathered by time and the elements,...

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