Yeteve Smith (American 1888 – 1975) was a painter of modernist portraits and landscapes.  She was born in Columbus, Ohio.  She studied at The Ohio State University, and her strong, unfussy works executed in the twenties and thirties reveal her aesthetic kinship with George Bellows.  She studied at Potsdamer Schuler in Berlin, in New York City with Alfredo Galle, and the Washington Art School throughout her career.  

Smith was a member of the Columbus Art League, where she won several prizes in the late 1920s, and the Ohio Watercolor Society.  She developed her reputation based on her figure paintings and portraits, along with a modern style of vivid color and strong, simplified form.

Her works can be found in public and important private collections.