Scrapbook 4: Letters from Spain and France
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smith, Houghton Cranford, 1887-1983
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content: Houghton Cranford Smith papers
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content: Houghton Cranford Smith papers / Series 1: Scrapbooks
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1926-1933
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content: Box 1, Folder 58-70
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: Archival materials
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content: This scrapbook contains Smith's passport, ship passenger lists and other travel documents, correspondence with family, French identification letters, exhibition catalogs, newspaper clippings and Academie Ozenfant list of classes and student card. Of particular note are correspondence from and a picture of Sir Walter Kitchener, governor of Bermuda, and letters from Elena to her parents-in-law. Topics covered in the correspondence include family life with sons Houghton Jr. and Gerrit and the birth of daughter Florence, financial difficulties, his art studies and the family's travels. During this period the family moved from New York to France in 1926, traveled in Spain, returned to New York in 1928, traveled in both Bermuda and Spain for several months before returning to France and settling in Paris. Smith attended the Academie Ozenfant and studied under Andre L'hote and Amadee Ozenfant.