Background
SMITH, Jack was born on June 18, 1928 in Sheffield. Son of John Edward Smith and Laura Smith.
SMITH, Jack was born on June 18, 1928 in Sheffield. Son of John Edward Smith and Laura Smith.
Sheffield College, of Art, St. Martin’s School of Art and Royal College.of Art.
(Book by Hulton, P. H)
One-man shows include Beaux Arts Gallery, London, 1952-1954, 56, 58, Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York City, 1958, 62-63, Retrospective Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1959, Mattiesen Gallery, London, 1960, 68, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1965, Marlborough Gallery, London, 1968, Gothenburg Museum, Sweden, 1968, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1971, Redfern Gallery, London, 1974, 76, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1978, Fischer Fine Art, London, 1981, 83, Studio 5, 1988, Flowers East Gallery, London, 1990-1992, 96, British Abstract Art Flower East, 1994, Flowers East, 2000, 03, 08, Flowers Central, 2004, 2007. Represented in public and private collections. Subject of monograph: Jack Smith: A Painter in Pursuit of Marvels, 2000.
Married Susan Craigie Halkett in 1956.