JACK SMITH (1928 - 2011)
Various Activities
JACK SMITH (1928 - 2011)
Various Activities
Oil on canvas
H 137.00cm (53.94 in) | W 137.00cm (53.94 in)
| Origin | United Kingdom, 1963 |
| Condition | Very good |
Provenance
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection
Exhibitions
Grosvenor Gallery, Jack Smith, 1965, no. 11
Middlesborough Art Gallery 1966-67
Tate Gallery, Recent British Painting: Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection,
1967, no. 43 illustrated
Art Gallery of South Australia: Adelaide Festival of Arts: Recent British Paintings
1970 no. 40
Sunderland Arts Centre, touring to Mappin Gallery, Sheffield; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle;
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Northampton Art Gallery, Jack Smith Retrospective, 1977 pl. 15 illustrated
Decade 56/66 Abstract & Constructed, JHW Fine Art & Tadema Gallery, 2005, illustrated back cover
Literature
Studio International Journal of Modern Art, December 1967,
Recent British painting: The Stuyvesant Collection, David Thompson, page 261 illustrated
"More & more do I find that activity of different kinds is essential in the painting - I want it to be as complex as a symphony; to keep the surface as flat as possible, letting it have visual space or eye dance, but no impressionist, cubist or continued space. I would like the surface to be as remote as Vermeer."
(From a statement by Jack Smith in London Magazine 1965)
Collections include: Arts Council; Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand; Berlin National Gallery; British Council; Cardiff Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Society; The City Art Gallery, Manchester;
City Art Gallery, Plymouth; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Gothenburg Museum, Sweden; Government Art Collection; Guggenheim Museum New York; Leicester City Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Tate Gallery, London; The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Welsh Contemporary Art Society
Ref No 151
