Education
Her early training was at the Art Association of Montreal where she studied under Randolph Hewton in 1922.
Her early training was at the Art Association of Montreal where she studied under Randolph Hewton in 1922.
She was known for her landscapes and portraits of children painted in Charlevoix county in the 1930s and 1940s. Friendships with writer Gabrielle Roy and ethnographer Marius Barbeau were honed in this period. In 1998 she published Charlevoix County, 1930, based largely on an early manuscript of her memories of the people that she painted in the 1930s in rural Quebec.
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musee d"art contemporain de Montreal, and the National Archives of Canada also maintain collections of her work.
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Subsequently her studies took her to the Ecole des Beaux Arts and in 1938 she became the only woman member of the Eastern Group of Painters. In 2002, Jori Smith was appointed a member of the Order of Canada. She was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.