Frances K. Smith
About
Frances K. Smith was the founding curator of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario. Through her series of exhibitions and scholarly catalogues and books of 19th and early 20th century Canadian artists, she made a contribution to the study of the visual arts in Canada. She was recognized by Moncrieff Williamson, an early gallery director in Charlottetown, as almost the only professional curator who was a woman active on the early scene of public art galleries in Canada, 1957 on. "How much southern Ontario owes these people", he wrote.
