Leon Polk Smith  (American, 1906-1996) 

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Leon Polk Smith, Yellow Edge

 

Leon Polk Smith
Yellow Edge
1954

Jason McCoy Gallery
Leon Polk Smith, Correspondence Red-Green

 

Leon Polk Smith
Correspondence Red-Green
1967

Jason McCoy Gallery
Leon Polk Smith, Inch Squares No. 3

 

Leon Polk Smith
Inch Squares No. 3
1948-1949

Washburn Gallery
Leon Polk Smith, Constellation K

 

Leon Polk Smith
Constellation K
David Richard Contemporary
Leon Polk Smith, Untitled

 

Leon Polk Smith
Untitled
1968

Washburn Gallery
Leon Polk Smith, Untitled

 

Leon Polk Smith
Untitled
1968

Washburn Gallery
Leon Polk Smith, Untitled

 

Leon Polk Smith
Untitled
1968

Washburn Gallery
Leon Polk Smith, Untitled

 

Leon Polk Smith
Untitled
1968

Washburn Gallery
Leon Polk Smith, Constellation Twelve Circles

 

Leon Polk Smith
Constellation Twelve Circles
1969

Washburn Gallery
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Leon Polk Smith, Twilight

 

Leon Polk Smith
Twilight, 1979
Sale Date: Sep 10, 2007
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Leon Polk Smith, Constellation edge of sight 2 ovals no. II (in 2 parts)

 

Leon Polk Smith
Constellation edge of sight 2 ovals no. II (in 2 parts), 1973
Sale Date: May 12, 2011
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Leon Polk Smith, Constellation #12, purple orange streak

 

Leon Polk Smith
Constellation #12, purple orange streak, 1973
Sale Date: Nov 13, 2003
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1906   Born May 20th, Indian Territory, Chichasha, Oklahoma
1934   B.A. Oklahoma State University, Ada, Oklahoma
1938   M.A. Columbia University, New York
1943   Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship
1966   National Council of Arts Award
1968   Artist in Residence, Brandeis University, Waltham Massachusetts
1972   Artist in Residence, University of California at Davis
1979   Hassam and Speicher Fund Purchase Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1996   Died December 4, 1996, New York, New York
2008   2008- Washburn Gallery, New York (solo)
2001   Arithmeum, Bonn, Germany (solo)
1999 - 2000   Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (solo)
1993 - 1995   The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (solo)
1991   "Between Mondrian and Minimalism: Neo-Plasticism in America," Whitney Museum of American Art, Federal Reserve Plaza, New York
1987   The Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio (solo)
1982   Washburn Gallery, New York (solo)
1979   "Collection: Art in America After World War II," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1977   Galerie Denise Rene, New York (solo)
1976   "Contemporary Paintings, " Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, New York Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1975   "American Art Since 1945," traveling exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
1973   "Post-Mondrian Abstraction in America," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
1969   Museum of Fine Arts, Fort Worth, Texas (solo)
1968   San Francisco Museum of Art, California (solo)
1965   "The Responsive Eye," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"A Decade of American Drawings,1955-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1963   "Twenty-eighth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
1962   "Geometric Abstraction in America," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1961   Stable Gallery, New York (solo)
"American Abstract Expressionist and Imagists, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1956   Camino Gallery, New York (solo)
1952   Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1948   "Abstract and Surrealist American Art Fifty-eighth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture," The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1946   Egan Gallery, New York (solo)
"Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture;, Watercolors and Drawings," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1943   "Contemporary American Paintings from the Collection of the University of Arizona," Presented under the Auspices of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1941   Uptown Gallery, New York (solo)
"International Water Color Exhibition-Eleventh Biennial," The Brooklyn Museum, New York
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  Los Angeles County Museum, California
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  Museum of Modern Art, New York
  National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York
  The Brooklyn Museum, New York

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