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Jeffrey Smart
(Italy, Australia 1921– )
- Title
- Truck and trailer approaching a city
- Year
- 1973
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
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75.0 x 150.4cm stretcher; 90.0 x 164.5 x 8.8cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l. corner, blue and black synthetic polymer paint "JEFFREY SMART". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased under the terms of the Florence Turner Blake Bequest 1980
- Accession number
- 1.1980
- Copyright
- © Jeffrey Smart
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
'Truck and trailer approaching a city' presents a frozen moment, in which Jeffrey Smart’s use of space, scale, colour and form evokes a sense of alienation.
'The painting is in two squares. I wanted to see if I could bring off a satisfactory composition which had a line down the centre, dividing it into two equal parts ... This is the first painting in which the apartment houses have that really impersonal quality I see in them ... I have been able to give them the grid look, amazingly similar to the pattern of memory cells in a computer. The sky is painted mainly with raw umber and mauve – with so much red, a neutral area was absolutely necessary.'
Jeffrey Smart, 1999
- Bibliography (21)
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‘Barry Pearce’s next book-call it “segueing with intent”’ by Jill Sykes, pg. 28-29., Look Mar 2012, Mar 2012, 28, 29 (colour illus.).
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Master of stillness: Jeffrey Smart paintings 1940–2011, Kent Town, 2012, 16 (colour illus.).
'Hard work: A new show reminds us of the limitations of colour-field abstraction' by Christopher Allen, pg. 12-13., The Weekend Australian 17 Oct 2009-18 Oct 2009, 17 Oct 2009-18 Oct 2009, 13. Focus room ‘Tackling the field’ exhibition review.
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Jeffrey Smart, Roseville, 2005, 120-121 (colour illus., detail), 122, 123 (colour illus.), 170, 178, 254.
'Parallel Visions: a study of fellow spirits in Australian art' by Barry Pearce, pg. 8-9., Look Feb 2002, Feb 2002, 9 (colour illus.).
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, Domain, 2002, 121 (colour illus.), 146, 147.
Jeffrey Smart (Italy; Australia, b.1921) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Author), Australian Galleries Pty Ltd (Australia), Jeffrey Smart: drawings and studies 1942-2001, Paddington, 2001, 93 (colour illus.). figure no. 17; cat.no. 108 is a study for this painting
John Connell (b.1946) (Author), Sydney: the emergence of a world city, South Melbourne, 2000, 315 (illus.). fig.no. 14.7
'Jeffrey Smart b.1921', pg. 48., Art in the sun 2000, 2000, 48 (colour illus.).
Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Author), Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Bruce James (Australia) (Author), John McDonald (Australia, b.1961) (Author), Peter Pinson (Australia, b.1943) (Author), Gavin Fry (Author), Sasha Grishin AM (Australia) (Author), Deborah Hart (South Africa; United Kingdom; Australia, b.1959) (Author), Australian painters of the twentieth century, Roseville, 2000, 179 (colour illus.).
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, front cover (colour illus., detail), 272 (colour illus.), 302.
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Author), Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Peter Quartermaine (Australia) (Author), Jeffrey Smart retrospective, Sydney, 1999, 136 (colour illus.), 137 (colour illus.), 208. cat.no. 45. The image appearing on pg. 136 is in detail.
Annabel Davie (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Domain, 1988, 33.
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Two centuries of Australian painting: a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, New South Wales, 1986, 48 (illus.). cat.no. 57
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Editor), Jan Meek (Australia) (Editor), Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984, 89 (colour illus.).
Jeffrey Smart 1983, 1983, 113. cat.no. 629
Brian Ladd (Australia) (Author), Alan Krell (Author), The Artist & the City, Domain, 1983, cover (colour illus.), 3, 14. cat.no. 30
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Author), Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Ursula Prunster (Australia) (Author), Jeffrey Smart - A review exhibition, Domain, 1982, cover (colour illus.), 1, 7. cat.no. 36
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, Sydney, 1981, 22 (colour illus.). cat.no. 36
Kym Bonython (Australia, b.1920) (Author), Ross K Luck (Australia, active 1967) (Author), Laurie Thomas (Australia, b.1915, d.1974) (Author), Elwyn Lynn (Australia, b.1917, d.1997) (Author), Modern Australian painting, 1950/1975, Adelaide, 1980, 189 (colour illus.).
Kym Bonython (Australia, b.1920) (Author), Elwyn Lynn (Australia, b.1917, d.1997) (Author), Modern Australian Painting, 1970/1975, Unknown, 1976, 75 (colour illus.). plate no. 106
- Exhibition history (14)
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Three years on: Acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 Oct 1981–01 Dec 1981.
Jeffrey Smart - A review exhibition (1982), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Jun 1982–08 Aug 1982.
The Artist and the City, Art Museum Armidale, 01 Nov 1983–04 Nov 1983.
The Artist and the City, Tamworth City Gallery, 08 Nov 1983–11 Nov 1983.
The Artist and the City, Manly Regional Art Gallery and Museum, 15 Nov 1983–20 Nov 1983.
The Artist and the City, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 26 Nov 1983–18 Dec 1983.
Two centuries of Australian painting, a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orange Regional Gallery, 19 Apr 1986–15 Jun 1986.
Jeffrey Smart retrospective (1999-2000), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 Aug 1999–31 Oct 1999.
Jeffrey Smart retrospective (1999-2000), Art Gallery of South Australia, 26 Nov 1999–06 Feb 2000.
Jeffrey Smart retrospective (1999-2000), Queensland Art Gallery, 10 Mar 2000–21 May 2000.
Jeffrey Smart retrospective (1999-2000), Heide Museum of Modern Art, 10 Jun 2000–06 Aug 2000.
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003.
Australian modern masterpieces from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 05 Oct 2011–27 Nov 2011.
Australian modern masterpieces from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 10 Dec 2011–04 Mar 2012.
