Artist Eric Smith won 3 Archibalds, then vanished. A new show reveals his unseen works
- Written by Tom Murray, Professor in Screen Media and Creative Arts, Macquarie University
Photograph by Robert Walker, Eric Smith in the studio, c.1973 black and white photograph, 52cmx42cm. Barbara Smith Collection. Used with permissionThere are many routes to artistic obscurity. The surest path, of course, is to have never been discovered in the first place. But this wasn’t the case with the late Eric Smith (1919-2017).
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