Painting Arizona

Pioneer Arizona painter Smith made at least 14 paintings of the dramatic landscape that Chief Cochise had fought so hard to keep.Cézanne may have had his Mont Sainte-Victoire, and Monet his haystacks, but Effie Anderson Smith had Cochise Stronghold. Like her two French predecessors, who painted their favorite nature subjects again and again (Monet racked up at least 25 haystack paintings), pioneer Arizona painter Smith made at least 14 paintings of the dramatic landscape that Chief Cochis