Record ID:
35699545 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • Launceston, Tasmania
Death:
  • Hobart, Tasmania
Occupations:
  • Artist
Used for:
  • Smith, Jack Carington, 1908-1972
Notes:
  • N.S.W. travelling art scholarship, 1956: page 9 (Jack Carington Smith. Born 1908. Born at Launceston, Tasmania. Studied at East Sydney Technical College, afterwards at the Royal Academy Schools, London, and in Paris. Head Teacher of Art, Launceston Technical College 1939-41, and since then Head Teacher of Art, Hobart, Technical College.)
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography, viewed online 8 October, 2019: (He died on 19 March 1972 at Sandy Bay and was cremated; his wife, son and two daughters survived him. One of his self-portraits (1968) was purchased in 1982 by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; another hangs in the Carington Smith Library, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania. Widely considered to be the most important Tasmanian painter of the twentieth century, he is represented in every major Australian gallery. Retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held in State, university and private galleries.) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/carington-smith-jack-9690
Local system number:
  • 000000703718
  • abv04952573
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda TSL
Authentication code:
  • kin anuc