Gray Smith

Gray Smith
Gray Smith in 1947
Born(1919-02-13)13 February 1919
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died7 August 1990(1990-08-07) (aged 71)
Canberra, ACT, Australia
NationalityAustralian
EducationMax Meldrum
Known forPainting and poetry
MovementAngry Penguins

Gray Smith (13 February 1919 – 7 August 1990) was an Australian artist, poet and jeweller who was part of the Heide Circle.[1] While best known as the famous Australian artist Joy Hester's spouse,[2] his most productive artistic period came later while married to Joan Upward in the '60s and '70s. Smith's modernist paintings often featured isolated figures in Australian outback landscapes.[3]

  1. ^ Reid, Barrie (1958). Modern Australian art: a Melbourne collection of paintings and drawings. Melbourne: Museum of Modern Art Australia.
  2. ^ Burke, Janine (1983). Joy Hester. Melbourne: Greenhouse Publications. ISBN 0909104603.
  3. ^ McCulloch, Alan (1968). Encyclopaedia of Australian Art. London: Hutchinson & Co.