Jack Carington Smith
Jack Carington Smith (26 February 1908 – 19 March 1972) was an Australian artist from Launceston, Tasmania. Born simply "Smith", he adopted "Carington Smith" as his surname around 1936 when he won a travelling scholarship which enabled him to study at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
He was head of the art department, from 1940 to 1970 during which time it was renamed , a faculty of the University of Tasmania.[1]
He won the Sulman Prize in 1949 for Bush Pastoral, a Mural design for New State Building, Hobart, and (after entering regularly for twenty years) the Archibald Prize in 1963 with a portrait of Professor James McAuley, who was then the chair of the University of Tasmania, and the Rubinstein Prize 1966.[2] Smith also worked as a tutor who taught other artists, including Max Angus, [3] and Jeff Hook.
The Carington Smith Library in the Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania is named for him.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- ^ McCulloch, Alan Encyclopedia of Australian Art Hutchinson of London 1968
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 February 2010. Retrieved 21 March 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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