Biography: David Smith 1920-1998 Painter using a richly
Expressionist palette, draughtsman,
printmaker
and teacher, born in Lowestoft,
Suffolk,
where he attended the Technical
School, also
Lowestoft and Norwich Schools
of Art. From
1939-40 Smith was visiting art
master at
Framlingham College, then he
served in Royal
Air Force, 1940-45; a collection
ofhis Air
Force pictures toured the country
in aid
of a Forces' charity, finishing
at Cooling
Gallery, opened by Group Captain
Sir Douglas
Bader. After the war Smith studied
at Slade
School of Fine Art, winning the
Abbey Major
Rome Scholarship at the British
School, Rome,
1949. Further teaching included
senior lecturer
in Fine Art at the Chelsea School
of Art,
1965-79. Smith was elected RE
in 1951, also
showing at the RA, LG, New Art
Centre and
elsewhere. He had over 60 solo
shows in Britain
and abroad, later ones including
retrospective
at Evesham Arts Festival, 1990;
a major show
at Sogo Art Gallery , Yokohama,
J apan, 1991
; and a retrospective at Bankside
Gallery,
1996. Smith sold well in Japan,
where he
painted all the major harbours.
He was official
artist to the British Antarctic
Survey, 1975-
76, with a second voyage in 1979-80.
In 1982-84
he was invited by Trinity House
to record
the lighthouses of England and
Wales. He
illustrated Richard Woodman's
book View from
the Sea and Anthony Fogg's The
Discovery
of Antarctica. HRH The Duke of
Edinburgh,
the British Antarctic Survey
in Cambridge,
Barclays Bank and many other
corporate and
private collections hold examples,
as well
as public galleries in Blackpool,
Lincoln,
Portsmouth, Sheffield and elsewhere.
Lived
in London. -
Source: Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945 by David Buckman
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