| |  Jeffrey Smart Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007Jeffrey Smart’s lucid and impassive paintings of cities and roads convey a vivid sense of human experience in a modern urban setting. This volume presents over one hundred works that have not been published in previous monographs, while Christopher Allen’s introductory essay offers a thematic and formal interpretation of the work of this great Australian artist.
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1921 | Born Adelaide, Australia | 1938-41 | Studied at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts | 1948-50 | Studied in Europe, including a period in Paris under Fernand Leger | 1951 | Awarded the Commonwealth Jubilee Art Prize | 1963
| Left Australia to live permanently in Italy |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2010 | 'Drawings and studies 1942 - 2000', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | ‘Paintings & Studies 2006-2010 and one drawing from 1946, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Paintings & Studies 2006-2010 and one drawing from 1946’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 2008 | Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | 2006 | 'Recent Paintings', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Recent Paintings 2004 - 2006', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2005 | Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | 2003 | Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 2001 | Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | 1999 | ‘Jeffrey Smart: Retrospective’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1998 | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1996 | Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | 1995 | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1992 | Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | 1990 | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1989 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1987 | Rex Irwin, Art Dealer, Sydney
| | 1986 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1984 | Rex Irwin, Art Dealer, Sydney
| | 1983 | Rex Irwin, Art Dealer, Sydney
| | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1982 | Redfern Gallery, London
| | ‘A Review Exhibition’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1981 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1980 | Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
| | 1979 | Redfern Gallery, London
| | 1978 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1976 | Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
| | 1975 | South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1973 | Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
| | 1972 | South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1971 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1970 | South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
| | Leicester Galleries, London
| | 1969 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1968 | South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
| | Galleria 88, Rome
| | 1967 | Redfern Gallery, London
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1966 | South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1965 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | Galleria 88, Rome
| | 1963 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1962 | South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1961 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1959 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1957 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1955 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
Group Exhibitions | | | 2010 | 'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Paintings and studies 2006 - 2010 and one drawing from 1946', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2007 | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2006 | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Fine Australian Prints and Drawings', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Summery', Australian Galleries, Sydney |
BibliographyAllen, C.; Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings 1940 - 2007, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2008
Antipodean Vision, Tate Gallery, London, 1962
Art in America, 1963
Capon, E.; Jeffrey Smart: Drawings and Studies 1942 – 2001, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2001
Capon, E.; Jeffrey Smart: Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1999
De Groen, G.; Some Other Dream: The Artist, the Art World and the Expatriate, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1984
Hawley, J.; Encounters with Australian Artists, UQP, St Lucia, 1990
Hutchings, P., “Some Contemporary Realisms”, Concerning Contemporary Art: The Power Lectures 1968-73, Smith, B. (ed.), Clarendon Press,Oxford, 1975
Hutchings, P.; “Jeffrey Smart: realism in three dimensions”, New Lugarno Review, vol. 8/9, 1976
Looby, K.; “The Absurd Beauty of Reality”, Hemisphere, vol. 16, no. 11, 1972
MacAulay, B.; Jeffrey Smart, The Jack Manton Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, 1989
Malouf, D.; “Jeffrey Smart: Recent Works”, Art International, vol. XXV/9, 1982
McDonald, J.; “Passion is all in the priesthood”, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November 1987
McDonald, J.; Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70’s and 80’s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990
McGrath, S.; “Jeffrey Smart: a satellite is surreal: a man on horseback is illogical”, Art International, vol. XXI/1, 1977
McGrath, S.; “Jeffrey Smart”, Art and Australia, vol. 7, no. 1, 1969
Measham, T.; The Moderns 1945-1975, Phaidon, Oxford, 1976
Pearce, B.; and Prunster, U.; Jeffrey Smart: A Review Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982
Pearce, B.; Jeffrey Smart, The Beagle Press, Sydney 2005
Pearce, B.; Jeffrey Smart: Paintings and Studies 1988-1995, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1995
Pearce, B.; Jeffrey Smart: Paintings and Studies 1993-1998, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1998
Quartermaine, P.; “Jeffrey Smart’s Brave New World”, Art and Australia, vol. 23, no. 1, 1985
Quartermaine, P.; Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983
Recent Australian Painting, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1961 Smart, J.; Not quite straight, William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne, 1996
Survey, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1966
CollectionsArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Australian National University, Canberra
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Carlo Boatti Collection, Milan
Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle
Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Rockhampton City Art Gallery, Rockhampton
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Thyssen Bornemesza Collection, Lugarno
University of Melbourne Museum of Art, Melbourne
University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide
University of Sydney Art Collection, Sydney
Victorian Arts Centre Public Art Collection, Melbourne
Yale University, New Haven
Photograph courtesy of Michel Lawrence
Selected ReviewsSmart wins accolade | The Australian Financial Review | 12 Oct 2006
Spare him the put-downs, Smart's better than ever | The Australian – The Arts | 26 Sep 2006
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