Ruth Smith (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish artist
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Place of Birth: Vágur, Faroe Islands
About Ruth Smith (artist)
- Ruth Smith Nielsen (5 April 1913 in Vágur – 26 May 1958) was a Faroese artist.
- She lived for some years in Denmark, where she was educated as a painter first on the Bizzie Højer Art School and later on the Art Academy of Copenhagen.She married the architect Poul Morell Nielsen in 1945.
- They lived in Lemvig, Denmark.
- Later, with her husband, she moved back to the Faroe Islands; and the last years of her life she lived in the small village Nes, which is located on the fjord Vágsfjørður between the villages Vágur, where she was born and Porkeri.
- Ruth Smith liked to swim in the sea, but one day she drowned while swimming in Vágsfjørður.
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