Sir Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith

(British, 1879–1959)

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Sir Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith

Pears with a Blue Background, 1937

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Biography

Timeline

1879
Born in Halifax
1896
Entered the family business
1900 - 1904
Manchester School of Art
1905 - 1907
Slade
1907
Summer painting school in Whitby
1916
Called up
1923 - 1926
Lived mainly in Paris
1949
Awarded C.B.E
1954
Knighted

Exhibitions

1983
Barbican Arts Centre, London
1979
M. Knoedler & Co.. Inc. in association with Waddington Galleries, London
1976
Arthur Tooth and Roland, Browse and Delbanco “Matthew Smith 1879 – 1959. A Loan Exhibition”
1966
Welsh Arts Council – Touring Exhibition
1960
Memorial exhibition at the Royal Academy
1953
Large Retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London
1950
One Man exhibition in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (solo)
1942
Retrospective Exhibitions at Temple Newsham House, Leeds
1934
Exhibition of recent paintings at Tooth’s
1927
Alex, Reid & Lefevre