Tom Smart

Tom Smart is the Executive Director and CEO of the McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, and the President of the McMichael Canadian Art Foundation. For seven years he was Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he developed an ambitious international exhibition program, and at the same time, he was appointed a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. He served as Acting Director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery from 1997 until 1999 and was Curator of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton from 1989 to 1997. Smart is the author of nine books and catalogues. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed Alex Colville: Return, which moved criticism of Colville's works to a new intellectual level. His 1995 book The Art of Mary Pratt: The Substance of Light won the Atlantic Provinces Booksellers Association Booksellers Choice Award, the Studio Magazine Award of Merit, and the Printing Industries of America Award of Merit. It was included in Great Canadian Books of the Century.

Books by Tom Smart

Materiality and Perception in Contemporary Atlantic Art

Matérialité et perception dans l’art contemporain des provinces atlantiques

Peter Clapham Sheppard

Tantramar Revisited, Revisited

Charles Pachter

Palookaville

Thoughts on Driving to Venus

Fabulous Peculiarities

Written in Wood

In the Footsteps of the Group of Seven

Christopher Pratt

Jack Chambers' Red and Green

Tom Benner

Tom Forrestall

Miller Brittain

Miller Brittain

Alex Colville

The Art of Mary Pratt

The Art of Fred Ross