[JEFFREY SMART] Evening. Lino Cut

by Jeff Smart.

A$1,100 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Full-page offset printed illustration, page 19 in: The Torch : Published annually by the Adelaide Teachers College. Vol. XXI, December, 1941. Adelaide : Printed at The Hassell Press, 1941. Small quarto, original textured paper wrappers with yapp edges (some light marks and edge wear), upper wrapper with design in blue and black (silverfished, light stains, light warping to text block, water stain to upper margin of final two leaves); pp 36, viii (advertisements), illustrated with 7 full-page reproductions of linocuts by College students Milton Hunkin (1), Ruth Mitchell (4), Rossley Coote (1), and most significantly final year student Jeff Smart (Jeffrey Smart, 1921-2013), whose work Evening reproduced on page 19 accompanies a poem with the same title by Colin Thiele on the facing page ; with numerous sepia tone photographic plates of student sporting teams, and a double-page spread Who s Who in College, 1941 with 14 head-and-shoulder portraits of the institution s most active students in terms of their contributions to campus activities (these include magazine editors Marcus Krieg, Colin Thiele, and Loullla Nicolaides, as well as Lourdes Hambour, Roma Musman, and Keith Smith); numerous student signatures to the Autographs page, Smart is not among those photographed and did not sign this copy unsurprisingly, as he was not an enthusiastic member of the student body and would sometimes pay other students to sign the attendance book on his behalf, being far more interested in his

• Binding: Hardcover

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