Dan V. Smith Biography
Dan Smith was born in Ivigtut, Greenland, in 1865.
He began studies at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. In 1890, Smith became an illustrator for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly. One of his first assignments depicted the massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.  
Smith worked for William Randolph Hearst as an illustrator of the Spanish-American War. For the next twenty years he created cover art for the The World and continued his work as a book illustrator.