Alice Ravenel Huger Smith

She was one of the leading figures in the so-called Charleston Renaissance, along with Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, Alfred Hutty, and Anna Heyward Taylor.

Smith received some basic training, early in her career, at the Carolina Art Association,[2] but otherwise remained largely self-taught throughout her life.

[4] After experimenting with oil paints and printmaking, Smith eventually settled on watercolor as her preferred medium, in which she would work for the rest of her life.

[2] She was also interested in recording vanishing ways of life; her best-known work is the series of twenty-nine watercolors she painted to illustrate A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties by Herbert Sass.

[2] Early in her career she also illustrated a volume by her father, D. E. H. Smith, a historian; titled The Dwelling Houses of Charleston, it was published in 1917 and sparked the historical preservation movement in the city.