Jeffrey Smart
(Italy, Australia 1921– )
Keswick siding
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
When I was very young, I had seen Keswick siding many times from the suburban train between Unley Park and Adelaide. Eventually I decided to do something about it, but it was difficult. The siding was on railway property, so I had to get off at Keswick station and climb down from the platform with my easel and gear and camera, and walk along the tracks with trains rushing past. Once work is started there is always the possibility of an officious railway worker ordering you off the site.
Jeffrey Smart, 1996Keswick siding declares Smart's early fascination for urban industrial landscapes and transport systems and witnesses the emergence of pictorial elements that have persisted throughout his career. It reflects his absorption of old master painting techniques from teachers at the South Australian School of Art, Marie Tuck (pupil of Rupert Bunny) and Ivor Hele. However, it is also an example of the painterly impasto approach that preceded his shift in technique to the 'eggshell' finish characteristic of his mature style.
- Place of origin
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Keswick,
Adelaide,
South Australia,
Australia
- Year
- 1945
- Media
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on jute canvas
- Dimensions
- 62.0 x 72.1cm stretcher; 78.0 x 88.5 x 6.7cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. corner, brown oil "JEFF SMART 45".
- Credit
- Gift of Charles B Moses 1982
- Accession number
- 193.1982
- Copyright
- © Jeffrey Smart
