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Jeffrey Smart is acclaimed for his precisely delineated urban and industrial landscapes. Having absorbed the influences of Australian modernism in the s, he worked in a distinctive, highly finished and detailed style. Smart spent most of his working life in Italy but continued to exhibit in Australia where he enjoyed popular and critical success. His paintings are held in major collections in Australia and overseas including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Smart was born in Adelaide in He visited the studio of the pioneering modernist painter and printmaker Dorrit Black , whose views on symmetry, line and composition greatly influenced the young artist. Smart began exhibiting in group shows in the early s and had his first solo exhibition in Melbourne in Inspired by the poetry of TS Eliot, his early landscape The Wasteland II was painted during his formative years in South Australia where he began to establish his remote vision of the urban landscape.

In Smart left Australia permanently for Rome. Works from this period, such as Cooper Park I and The Cahil Expressway mark the beginning of Smart's mature style, characterized by an increased hyper-clarity and meticulously crafted compositions.

The was a crucial year in the artistic and personal life of the artist, who resumed his travels around Europe and permanently moved to Rome with Australian artist and partner Ian Bent. Throughout the s and s, Smart's artistic career gained momentum thanks to prominent solo shows and exhibitions in his homeland and around the world, such as the solo exhibition at the Redfern Gallery in London and the inclusion in the American touring group show The Australian painters Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection.

Between and , Smart painted his largest work, City landscapes , a series of panels for the dining-room of the Sydney house of Tony and Sandra McGrath. The commission was designed and overseen by Smart, but Ian Bent executed much of the details.

The mural depicts a tall hedge of yellow, withering spikes blocking the view into a bleak cityscape delimited by a leaden, threatening sky. In , Smart purchased a farmhouse in Posticcia Nuova in the countryside of Arezzo, a small town in Tuscany, where he will remain for the rest of his life. The move to Tuscany marks the beginning of the most prolific period in the artist's career. Starting from the s, Smart dedicated himself to interpreting the landscape of modern Italy, mixing his own personal and imaginary relationship with the land with a crystal-clear recording of precise details of climate, life, and landscape.

Paintings from the s and s, such as The Arezzo turn-off II and The Dome , show repeating architectural motifs, geometric shapes, and highly-controlled patterns of light and shadow as guiding principles in the creation of rigidly structured compositions.

A sketch the artist took during a train journey of the platform at the English station of Ashford transformed into Matisse at Ashford , one of his most relevant works from his later years. The artist died in Arezzo in at the age of ninety-two. Even though he lived as an expatriate for most of his life, the majority his works is now housed by Australian museums and galleries. Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart, AO 26 July — 20 June was an expatriate Australian painter known for his precisionist depictions of urban landscapes that are "full of private jokes and playful allusions".

Smart was born and educated in Adelaide where he worked as an Art teacher. He returned to Australia , living in Sydney, and began exhibiting frequently in In , he moved to Italy. After a successful exhibition in London, he bought a rural property called "Posticcia Nuova" near Arezzo in Tuscany. He resided there with his partner until his death. His autobiography, Not Quite Straight, was published in A major retrospective of his works travelled around Australian art galleries — Jeff Smart, as he was generally known for the first thirty years of his life, was born in Adelaide in He started drawing at an early age.

In the early s he accompanied local maritime artist, John Giles, in painting industrial landscapes at Port Adelaide. He joined the Royal South Australian Society of Arts around and was elected vice-president in It was during this period that he acknowledged his homosexuality. In , he moved to Sydney and spent the next 2 years there as an art critic for the Daily Telegraph —54 , an arts compere called Phidias for the ABC children's radio programme The Argonauts, and a drawing teacher at the National Art School — He exhibited throughout this period at the Macquarie Galleries.