Artworks by Leon Polk Smith at Edition Galerie Hoffmann on artnet

Leon Polk Smith

(American, 1906–1996)

Leon Polk Smith

untitled (constellation), 1967

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Leon Polk Smith

untitled, 1972

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Leon Polk Smith

werkübersicht 1946 -1986 - print no. 09, 1987

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Leon Polk Smith

werkübersicht 1946 -1986 - print no. 08, 1987

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Leon Polk Smith

long journey 1979 - 1987 (artist portfolio), 1987

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Leon Polk Smith

untitled (torndrawing), 1960

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Leon Polk Smith

untitled (torn drawing), 1960

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Leon Polk Smith

untitled (torndrawing), 1957

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Leon Polk Smith

werkübersicht II (no. 07), 1972–1995

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Leon Polk Smith

werkübersicht II (no. 05), 1971–1995

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Leon Polk Smith

werkübersicht II (no. 09), 1954–1995

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Leon Polk Smith

werkübersicht II (no. 08), 1958–1995

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Timeline

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

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

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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Leon Polk Smith

(American, 1906–1996)

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Leon Polk Smith

(American, 1906–1996)

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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