Emily Guthrie Smith was born in Fort Worth. She studied under
Robert Brackman at the Art Students League in New York City in 1931
and later with Mitchell Jamieson and Frederic Taubes. She was
honored by solo exhibitions sponsored by galleries and art
associations throughout Texas. In 1966 the Fort Worth Art
Center mounted a retrospective of her work, and in 1970 the Wichita
Museum of Fine Arts sponsored her second retrospective exhibition.
Smith joined the Pastel Society of America in 1975 and won awards at
the society's sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth annual
exhibitions. She was elected into the Pastel Society Hall of Fame in
1984. She was a member of the Fort Worth Art Association, the
Dallas Art Association, the Taos Art Association, the Texas Fine
Arts Association, the Southern States Art League, and the Pastel
Society of America.