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Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York [Published date: 1985]. Paper covers, 23 pp; illustrated throughout with black-and-white and some color plates; 22 x 28 cm. In good+ condition. Glossy white pictorial paper covers have light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners and light age-spotting along fore-edge of front cover, rear cover and edges of text block. Binding tight (staple-bound). Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. Exhibition catalog issued for Summers Abroad: The European Watercolors of Francis Hopkinson Smith held at the Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, May 9 - June 15, 1985. Text by Teresa Carbone. Features watercolors and charcoals produced by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) during his European travels, with views of Venice, London, Holland, and Normandy. Includes checklist of exhibited works such as The Hague (1882), Venice (1882), Santa Maria della Formosa on a Rainy Day (c. 1905), and Inn of William the Conqueror, Dives, Normandy (c. 1905). Supplemented with notes, acknowledgements, and bibliography documenting Smith's career as artist, engineer, and author. Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) was an American engineer, artist, and author, best known for building the foundation of the Statue of Liberty and for his plein air watercolors of European cities such as Venice, The Hague, and Dordrecht. His paintings, often blending realism with impressionistic light effects, were widely exhibited in the United States and remain valued for their spontaneity and atmosphere. Smith also wrote popular novels and stories, including Caleb West, Master Diver (1898), drawing on his engineering and travel experiences.