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