Helena Wood Smith (March 9, 1865 – August 1914) was an American artist.
Helena Wood Smith was born on March 9, 1865, in Bangor, Maine.
By 1912, she had moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and was the instructor of "drawing and painting from nature" at the local School of Arts & Crafts.
[3] Smith was also discussed in Corelli C. W. Simpson's Leaflet of Artists (J.W.
In August 1914, she was strangled and buried on the beach by her lover, Japanese art-photographer George Kodani, who was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.