{{Infobox artist | name = Jori Smith | image = Jori Smith self portrait.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Self-portrait, 1945 | birth_name = Marjorie Elizabeth Thurston Smith | birth_date = {{birth date|1907|1|1|mf=y}} | birth_place = Montreal, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|2005|11|25|1907|1|1|mf=y}} | death_place = Montreal, Canada | nationality = | education = Art Association of Montreal, École des beaux-arts de Montréal | field = Painter | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = Jean Palardy }} {{Short description|Canadian artist (1907 – 2005)}} '''Marjorie "Jori" Smith'''<ref name="Artnet">{{cite web|title=Marjorie (Jori) Elizabeth Thurston Smith|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/marjorie-jori-elizabeth-thurston-smith/|website=Artnet|accessdate=22 March 2018}}</ref> {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|RCA|size=100%}} (January 1, 1907 – November 25, 2005) was a key figure in the 1930s in initiating Canada's modernist art movement. She was a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society in 1939.<ref name="FromWomensEyes" />
==Biography== Smith was born in Montreal, Canada on January 1, 1907.<ref name="FromWomensEyes">{{cite book|last1=Farr|first1=Dorothy|last2=Luckyj|first2=Natalie|title=From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada|date=1975|publisher=Agnes Etherington Art Centre|location=Kingston|pages=59}}</ref> Her early training was at the Art Association of Montreal where she studied under Randolph Hewton.<ref name="FromWomensEyes"/> Subsequently, her studies took her to the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and in 1938 she became the only woman member in the Eastern Group of Painters. She was known for her landscapes and portraits of children painted in Charlevoix county in the 1930s and 1940s. She married Jean Palardy in 1930, and spent much of the following decade in the Baie Saint-Paul area with Palardy, himself a painter film-maker and antique expert. Friendships with writer Gabrielle Roy and ethnographer Marius Barbeau were honed in this period. She was a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society, and her works were included in the exhibitions of the Art Association of Montreal. In 1998 she published ''Charlevoix County, 1930'', based largely on an early manuscript of her memories of the people that she painted in the 1930s in rural Quebec.<ref name="Penumbra">{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Jori|title=Charlevoix County, 1930|date=1998|publisher=Penumbra Press|location=[Manotick, ON]|isbn=0921254830|edition=1st|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/charlevoixcounty0000smit}}</ref> In 2002, Jori Smith was appointed a member of the Order of Canada.<ref name="ngc">{{cite web|title=Jori Smith|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/jori-smith|website=National Gallery of Canada|accessdate=22 March 2018}}</ref> She was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.<ref name=RCA1880>{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archivedate=26 May 2011 }}</ref>
Her memoirs, ''Charlevoix County, 1930'', were published in 1998. The book was shortlisted for the QSPELL Mavis Gallant Prize and First Book Prize.<ref name="Penumbra2">{{cite web|title=Charlevoix County, 1930|url=https://www.penumbrapress.com/book.php?id=9|website=Penumbra Press|accessdate=22 March 2018}}</ref>
Smith died in Montreal on November 25, 2005.<ref name="ngc"/>
==Works== * ''Charlevoix County, 1930'' {{ISBN|0-921254-83-0}} (Penumbra Press; 1998);<ref>{{cite web |title=Loren Lerner, "An Analysis of the Text and Images of Jori Smith’s Charlevoix County, 1930" |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vlt4QmV_Ug |website=www.youtube.com |publisher=CWAHI, 2021 |access-date=1 November 2024}}</ref>
==Legacy== Her works are held in museums including the National Gallery of Canada, notably "The Communicant", dating from her many years at Petite Rivière St Francois. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and the Library and Archives Canada also maintain collections of her work.
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/enthusiast/thirties/gallery_of_e.jsp?iartistid=5117 Gallery of Jori Smith] on ''Canadian Painting in the 30s'' * [https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/jori-smith Jori Smith] National Gallery of Canada
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Jori}} Category:Canadian modern painters Category:Artists from Montreal Category:Members of the Order of Canada Category:1907 births Category:2005 deaths Category:Canadian women painters Category:Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Category:20th-century Canadian women artists Category:École des beaux-arts de Montréal alumni