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Jeffrey Edson Smart

Jeffrey Edson Smart (1921 - 2013) was active/lived in Australia, Italy.  Jeffrey Smart is known for Portrait, city scene, architecture painting.

Following is the obituary of the artist by Michael McNay, the guardian.com, June 27, 2013.

Jeffrey Smart's boyhood ambition in Adelaide was to be an architect, and the career he actually had as a painter showed why. He was fascinated with what is now called the built environment and painted it in all its manifestations with a degree of precision perfected, most likely, when he submitted himself to Fernand Léger's teaching in Paris in 1949.

Smart, who has died aged 91, reached the peak of his popularity in Australia in the 1990s. He sustained this success both there and in Italy, where he had lived since 1963. It was Mussolini's Italy that introduced motorways to Europe - fantastically beautiful structures curving through the mountains - and the Italians have always embraced the paraphernalia of road transport: the massive trucks, the trans-Europe coaches, the dramatic arrows warning of unexpected bends. Smart went along gladly with all this.

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