Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (SC, 1876-1958), The Studio Balcony

Etching and drypoint on thin paper, pencil signed and titled lower margin, unframed.

Platemark 8 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.; Sheet size 11 3/8 x 8 3/4 in.

A South Carolina Collection

Alice Ravenel Huger Smith was a self‑taught American painter and printmaker from Charleston, South Carolina. Her delicate, Japonisme influenced watercolors of the Lowcountry marshes and historic architecture made her a central figure of the Charleston Renaissance. As a devoted advocate for local heritage, she co‑founded the Charleston Etchers’ Club and the Southern States Art League, and her architectural illustrations notably helped spark Charleston’s early historic preservation movement. Her evocative work—ranging from atmospheric woodblock prints to sensitive landscape watercolors—can be found today in major American collections such as the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina; the Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina; the Brooklyn Museum; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; the de Young Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, California; and others.

Foxing throughout; some previous hinging affixed to edges.