A Brush With Life by Frank Sidney Smith

A Brush With Life by Frank Sidney Smith (Weidenfeld and Nicolson / 1993) 

Frank Smith is a largely self-taught artist, drawing on his life experiences for the subject of his naive paintings. Born in Kent, he spent most of his life in the Midlands. T his book presents 130 of the paintings which illustrate the privations and heartaches of his life, from his early years in a Kentish workhouse to the deaths in quick succession of his wife and son.

Hardcover. Some light wear to dustjacket including 2 cm vertical closed tear from top edge of back, but on the whole this book remains in very good condition with clean, unmarked pages. 

Pages: 160