Ethelynde Smith

Ethelynde Smith (May 28, 1888 — February 1978) was an American concert singer and botanical painter.

[2] After some local success, she was invited to be a soloist at the Maine Music Festival in 1916, singing alongside Geraldine Farrar.

[3][4] Smith toured as a concert singer from the mid-1910s through the 1930s, performing as a guest soloist with orchestras in larger theatres and giving more intimate recitals to women's clubs and college audiences across the United States and Canada.

[9] Smith moved to Altadena in southern California and turned to the visual arts[10] after an illness in 1943 affected her voice.

[15] "The magnificent flower paintings by Ethelynde Smith at the Chicago Natural History Museum remind one of Georgia O'Keeffe's enormous, perfect blossoms", raved Eleanor Jewett of the Chicago Tribune, adding that the exhibit was "informative as well as pleasing to the eye".