Jeffrey Smart b. 26 July 1921

Also known as Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart, Jeff Smart
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
With a career lasting over sixty years the Adelaide born artist Jeffrey Smart was an expatriate realist painter best known for his eerily still paintings of industrial landscapes and architectural details.
Tags: Urban landscape, Italy
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Name
Jeffrey Smart
Also known as:
  • Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart
  • Jeff Smart
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Other Occupation
  • art critic for the Daily Telegraph, Sydney 1952 - 1954 Sydney NSW
  • drawing teacher 1962 - 1963 National Art School, Sydney, NSW
  • "Phideas" (ANZSIC code: 561) - 1963 Argonauts Club, ABC Radio Children's Hour program
Tags:
Urban landscape
Italy
Birth date
26 July 1921
Birth place
Adelaide, SA
Death date
20 June 2013
Death place
Arezzo, Italy
Active Period
  • 1938 - c.2010
Residence
  • 1949 Paris, France
  • 1964 - 2013 Posticcia Nuova, Arezzo, Italy
Training
  • 1938 - 1941 South Australian School of Arts & Crafts
  • 1949 Academe Montmartre, Paris, France
Languages
  • English

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References [<ExternalResource: Hall, Doug (October 2012), 'Smart guy: Jeffrey Smart'.>, <ExternalResource: Patricia Maunder, Jeffrey Smart (obituary) Sydney Morning Herald 21 June 2013>, <ExternalResource: Jeffrey Smart interview with Peter Thompson ABC (2008)>] [<ExternalResource: Hall, Doug (October 2012), 'Smart guy: Jeffrey Smart'.>, <ExternalResource: Patricia Maunder, Jeffrey Smart (obituary) Sydney Morning Herald 21 June 2013>]