Discipline: Literature – poetry

Chard Smith

Discipline: Literature – poetry
MacDowell Fellowships: 1924, 1925, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1952

Chard Powers Smith (November 1, 1894 - October 31, 1977) was an American writer who produced a wide range of works from poetry and fiction to literary criticism and history. His novel Artillery of Time won a National Book Award for Fiction ("Bookseller Discovery") in 1939.

Studios

Chapman

Chard Smith worked in the Chapman studio.

Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…

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