Fragments of a Faith Forgotten - The Art of Harry Smith

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten - The Art of Harry Smith / large 232-page paperback, 9.75 x 11.75 inches, published in 2025 by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard / ISBN 9781735230542 *** A copiously illustrated, sweeping overview of the beloved polymath’s life and career Harry Smith (1923-91) was a painter, filmmaker, folklorist, musicologist and collector as well as a radical nonconformist whose work defies categorization. This volume accompanies the major exhibition on the art and life of Harry Smith co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Carpenter Center at Harvard University. It is the first publication featuring extensive color illustrations of Smith’s visual art, films and collections. It contains biographical information alongside examinations of his work across mediums. The publication follows Smith from an isolated Depression-era childhood in the Pacific Northwest through his counterculture youth in postwar Berkeley, California. From there,