Gordon W. Smith

Who was Gordon W. Smith?

Gordon William Smith was an artist and collector of American Indian art and ethnographic materials who lived in and was a native of Fort Worth, Texas. His collection of American Indian art, which was featured between August 2008 and August 2009 in a special exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural Science entitled Quest for High Bear: A Boy’s Odyssey Through Indian Country 1925-1939, and has been display at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History since November 2009, was acquired by the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2009. Gordon W. Smith was also a publisher, and was an officer in the US Navy during World War II. He died on March 4, 2010, in Fort Worth, Texas.