Jeffrey Smart
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Jeffrey Smart (1921 - ) is an expatriate Australian painter, who is known for his modernist depictions of urban landscapes.
Smart was born in Adelaide. 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 Chaumiere. He began exhibiting frequently in 1957. In 1965 he moved to Italy and bought the house where he still resides, Posticcia Nuova, near Arezzo in 1971.
His autobiography, "Not Quite Straight" was published in 1996. A major retrospective of his works travelled around Australian art galleries from 1999.
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