Clarice Smith

Clarice Smith (born 1933) is an American painter and portraitist whose paintings have been exhibited in a number of exhibitions in the United States and Europe. With her late spouse, Robert H. Smith, Clarice Smith has engaged in philanthropy, especially at the University of Maryland, where the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is named for her.

Clarice Smith studied art at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and the University of Maryland. She received her MFA from George Washington University, where she later taught as a member of faculty. Smith, who describes herself as a "lifelong learner," cites a "Methods and Materials" class at George Washington University, "where she first learned about paints," as the beginning of her career as an artist. In 2012 she received an honorary doctorate from George Washington University.

Clarice Smith has worked as a professional painter for forty years, and has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in both the United States and Europe. Among her most notable exhibitions are those at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (2009),Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2011), and the New York Historical Society (2013). Her painting Big Race (2001) is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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