Reginald Smith
Our very first Museum Highlight in 2017 linked well with our 87th Annual Exhibition “Henley Hooray!”and celebrated our close links with Henley-on-Thames. [Highlighted: Mar 2017]

by Reginald Smith
Oil on canvas
78cm x 58cm
Date: 1965
RGA member: 1966–1979
Reading Museum Accession Number
REDMG :1966.67.1
Our first choice links well with our 87th Annual Exhibition “Hooray Henley!” and celebrates our close links with Henley-on-Thames. This work was exhibited at the RGA 36th Annual Exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery Reading 7th May – 28th May 1966.
This was the first year Reginald Smith exhibited with the RGA so we can only imagine his feelings of having one of his works bought by the Museum for their collection. A landscape painter, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, was one of four works he exhibited in 1966, two oils and two watercolours, the others all being scenes of Kettlewell in Yorkshire.
Reg Smith was a professional artist and notable exhibitor in the 1970s. He served on the RGA Council for several years, seemingly greatly involved with the RGA’s social activities, as well a designing covers for two of the Exhibition catalogues.
He exhibited for the last time in 1979 when it was later reported “the very sudden and totally unexpected passing of one of [our] most active and best loved practitioners”.