Ruth Smith
Danish artist
Died when: 45 years 51 days (541 months)Star Sign: Aries
Ruth Smith Nielsen (5 April 1913 in Vágur – 26 May 1958) was a Faroese artist.Smith lived for some years in Denmark, where she was educated as a painter: first. at the Bizzie Højer Art School, and, later, at the Art Academy of Copenhagen.
Smith 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 in the last years of her life she lived in the small village of Nes, which is located on the fjord Vágsfjørður between the villages Vágur, where she was born, and Porkeri.
Smith enjoyed swimming in the sea; in 1958, she drowned while swimming in Vágsfjørður.
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