Jeffrey Smart
Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart (born 1921 in Adelaide), is an expatriate Australian painter, who is known for his Precisionist depictions of urban landscapes.
His first goal was to become an architect; however, he went on to become an art teacher after studying at Adelaide Teacher's College and the South Australian School of Art and Crafts. Smart taught art in schools for the South Australian Education Department from 1942-1947. During this time he also acknowledged his own homosexuality.
He later studied in Paris with Fernand Léger as well as at La Grande Chaumière. He began exhibiting frequently in 1957. In 1963 he moved to Italy and in 1971 bought the house where he still resides, Posticcia Nuova, near Arezzo. His autobiography, "Not Quite Straight", was published in 1996. A major retrospective of his works travelled around Australian art galleries 1999–2000.
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