1941
Born in New York, New York to Joseph Percy and Virginia Sandford Smyth.
1963
Receives a Bachelor of Arts from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.
1970
Receives a Master of Arts from Indiana University.
1971
Becomes assistant director of public relations for the Indianapolis Museum of Art (now Newfields).
1972
Becomes director of the Washington Gallery in Frankfort, Indiana.
1977
Becomes director of the Washington Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1980
Serves as the Wisconsin editor of New Art Examiner.
1981
Becomes director of Kit Basquin Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1990
Becomes curator of education at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1995
Becomes director of outreach for the Wisconsin Humanities Council.
1998
Becomes curator of the Marvin Lowe Retrospective at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University.
2000
Becomes exhibition manager for William Doyle Galleries, Inc. in New York, New York.
2000
Becomes a research associate at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
2000
Becomes an associate in the print study room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2009
Receives a Doctor of Philosophy from Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, Ohio.