Ned Smith was a Pennsylvania wildlife artist whose career ran from the 1940s through the 1980s, most of it spent illustrating for Pennsylvania Game News, where his naturalist draftsmanship reached a wide audience of hunters and outdoorsmen. His work sits at the intersection of scientific accuracy and genuine feeling for the landscape, closer in spirit to the great American field illustrators than to decorative wildlife art. The period originals from this body of work are uncommon finds.