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Leon Polk Smith
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American
, 1906–1996)
Leon Polk Smith
untitled,
1954
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Biography
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1906
Born May 20, Indian Territory, Chichasha, OK
1934
BA Oklahoma State University, Ada, OK
1938
MA Columbia University, New York
1943
Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship
1958
Longview Grant
1966
National Council of Arts Award
1968
Artist in Residence, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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
1986
Distinguished alumnus award, East Central University, Ada, OK
1996
Died December 4, 1996, New York, NY
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Exhibitions
2011
Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany (solo)
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
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Public Collections
University of Sydney Museum, Sydney, Australia
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Albright-Knox Museum of Art, Buffalo, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Los Angeles County Museum, CA
Kunsthalle Nürenberg, Nürnberg, Germany
The Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, NY
Grenoble Museum, Grenoble, France
State Art Collection, Oklahoma City, OK
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Sammlung Ludwig Museum Moderner Kunst, Wien, Cologne, Germany
Rose Museum, Brandies University, Waltham, MA
Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, Providence, RI
Portland Art Museum, OR
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum Fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshaafen Am Rhein, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Weisbaden Museum of Art, Weisbaden, Germany
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver B.C.
The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago
Fort Worth Art Museum, TX
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