Title
The wasteland II
1945
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Flinders Ranges
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South Australia
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Australia
- Date
- 1945
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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60.9 x 73.4 cm stretcher; 75.8 x 86.5 x 6.3 cm frame
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0 - Whole, 59.5 x 70.3 cm, SIGHT DIMENSION
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, brown oil "JEFF SMART 45".
- Credit
- Purchased 1946
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 7825
- Copyright
- © Estate of Jeffrey Smart
- Artist information
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Jeffrey Smart
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 8 exhibitions
Contemporary Australian painting from the National collection, Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 1946–1950
Jeff Smart and Jacqueline Hick Exhibition (1946), David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, Nov 1946 -
Aspects of Australian art: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1976, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1976–1977
Jeffrey Smart - A review exhibition (1982), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Jun 1982–08 Aug 1982
Arid Arcadia: art of the Flinders Ranges, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 30 Aug 2002–03 Nov 2002
Wastelands: A poetic legacy, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Aug 2005–09 Oct 2005
Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart paintings 1940–2011, Carrick Hill, Australia, 12 Oct 2012–24 Feb 2013
Jeffrey Smart centenary exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 02 Oct 2021–06 Mar 2022
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Bibliography
Referenced in 13 publications
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Alisa Bunbury, Arid Arcadia: Art of the Flinders Ranges, 'The lure of the land: an artist's destination', pg. 110-139, Adelaide, 2002, 115 (colour illus.), 116, 118, 194 (illus.).
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Barry Pearce and Ursula Prunster, Jeffrey Smart - A review exhibition, Sydney, 1982, 1, 2, 5. cat.no. 7
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE, I blame Duchamp: my life's adventures in art, 'Jefrrey Smart: a man of great composure', pg. 179-190, Sydney, 2009, 182.
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Robert Lindsay., Aspects of Australian Art: Art Gallery of New South Wales travelling art exhibition 1976, 'Jeffrey Smart', Sydney, 1976, (illus.). cat.no. 62; not paginated
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Steve Meacham, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Pure poetry of art's dreamers', pg. 14, Sydney, 14 Sep 2007, 14 (colour illus.).
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Hal Missingham, Contemporary Australian painting from the National Collection, Sydney, circa 1946, 13. cat.no. 27; titled 'The wastelands'
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Barry Pearce, Look, 'Focus on Wastelands: How the idea was born', pg. 16, Sydney, Sep 2005, 16, 17, 19 (colour illus.).
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Barry Pearce, Jeffrey Smart, 'Art and life in South Australia', pg. 24-69, Sydney, 2005, 47-48, 51.
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Barry Pearce, Jeffrey Smart retrospective, 'Out of Adelaide', pg. 22-33, Sydney, 1999, 27, 28.
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Barry Pearce, Master of stillness: Jeffrey Smart paintings 1940–2011, Kent Town, 2012, 38 (colour illus.), 128. cat.no. 11
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Peter Quartermaine, Jeffrey Smart, South Yarra, 1983, 55 (colour illus.), 101. cat.no. 94
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Jeffrey Smart, Not quite straight: a memoir, Port Melbourne, 1996, 69-70, 106-107, 312.
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Jeffrey Smart, Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Australian Galleries Pty Ltd, Jeffrey Smart: drawings and studies 1942-2001, Sydney, 2001, 27.
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