hoffmann

works

easy ride

easy ride

1985

acrylic on linen, wood lacquered

216 × 305 cm
7′ 1 116″ × 10′ 116

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constellation

constellation

1967

collage, drawing and pasteboard on laid paper

105 × 75 cm
3′ 5 516″ × 2′ 5 816

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long journey

long journey

1979

collage, pasteboard on paper

66.5 × 102 cm
2′ 2 18″ × 3′ 4 316

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ohne titel

untitled

1958

collage, tissue paper and pasteboard on paper

101.5 × 66.5 cm
3′ 3 1516″ × 2′ 2 18

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untitled

1962

paint on laid paper

76 × 57.5 cm
2′ 5 1516″ × 1′ 10 1016

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untitled

1946

drawing, colourpen on laid paper

76 × 58.5 cm
2′ 5 1516″ × 1′ 11 116

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untitled

1954

paint on laid paper

94 × 64.5 cm
3′ 1″ × 2′ 1 616

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untitled

1972

collage, pasteboard on paper

101.5 × 81 cm
3′ 3 1516″ × 2′ 7 1416

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ohne titel

untitled

1971

collage, drawing and pasteboard on transparent paper

96.5 × 63.5 cm
3′ 2″ × 2′ 1″

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ohne titel

untitled

1970

collage, paint and pasteboard on laid paper

107.5 × 76.5 cm
3′ 6 516″ × 2′ 6 216

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ohne titel

untitled

1980

collage, pasteboard on laid paper

102.5 × 65.5 cm
3′ 4 616″ × 2′ 1 1316

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ohne titel

untitled

1960

torndrawing

35.5 × 27.2 cm
1′ 2″ ×  10 1116

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untitled

1957-1958

torndrawing

33 × 20.3 cm
1′ 1″ ×  8″

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untitled

1955

collage, silver paper on paper

34 × 27 cm
1′ 1 616″ ×  10 1016

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untitled

1995

drawing, photo copy, pencil, ballpoint pen

29.7 × 21 cm
11 1116″ ×  8 416

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edition hoffmann

exhibitions

viewing rooms

biography

leon polk smith (1906, chickasha, ok, united states – 1996, new york, ny, united states)

solo exhibitions

  • 2024
    • leon polk smith: 1940 – 1961, lisson gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2023
    • eon polk smith: going beyond space, museum haus konstruktiv, zürich, switzerland
  • 2022
    • leon polk smith: 1945 – 1962, palm springs art museum, palm springs, ca, united states
  • 2021
    • leon polk smith: prairie moon, lisson gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith: big form, big space, contemporary art gallery, vancouver, bc, canada
    • leon polk smith: hiding in plain sight, heard museum, phoenix, az, united states
  • 2020
    • leon polk smith, lisson gallery, east hampton, ny, united states
  • 2019
    • leon polk smith: endless space, richard gray gallery, chicago, il, united states
    • leon polk smith: prints, lora reynolds gallery, austin, tx, united states
    • leon polk smith: prints, drawings, and collages, senior & shopmaker gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2018
    • tearing the line: works by leon polk smith, israel museum, jerusalem, israel
    • leon polk smith, lisson gallery, london, united kingdom
  • 2017
    • geometry in motion: leon polk smith works on paper, munson–williams–proctor arts institue, utica, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith, lisson gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith: prints and related works, senior & shopmaker gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2016
    • leon polk smith selections from miami, washburn gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith: back to oklahoma, osu museum of art, stillwater, ok, united states
  • 2015
    • leon polk smith: paintings and collages from the 1960s, washburn gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2014
    • linear curves: leon polk smith, works from the 1960s, louis stern fine arts, west hollywood, los angeles, ca, united states
  • 2013
    • leon polk smith: cherokee | chickasaw | choctaw, washburn gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • space considered: leon polk smith, valerie carberry gallery, chicago, il, united states
  • 2011
    • leon polk smith: 50 years of separation, washburn gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith: raumformen/spaceforms, kubus, stiftung situation kunst (für max imdahl), ruhr-universität, bochum, germany
  • 2010
    • leon polk smith: the tamarind lithography workshop, amon carter museum, fort worth, tx, united states
    • leon polk smith, kunstsammlungen der ruhr-universität, bochum, germany
  • 2009
    • leon polk smith: a constellation with works on paper, washburn gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2008
    • eon polk smith: torn paper drawings 1956 – 1964, washburn gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2007
    • eon polk smith: the constellations paintings, louis stern fine arts, west hollywood, los angeles, ca, united states
  • 2006
    • leon polk smith: 10 paintings, 1945 – 1950, washburn gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith: american original, museum of art, the university of oklahoma, norman, ok, united states
    • leon polk smith: invention: a centennial celebration of his oeuvre, jason mccoy gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2005
    • leon polk smith: forms and functions in the 1950s, washburn gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2002
    • leon polk smith: baseballs, basketballs and tennis, c. 1955, washburn gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2001
    • leon polk smith: in the arithmeum, university of bonn, bonn, germany
  • 2000
    • leon polk smith: cattlebrands and columns, washburn gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1999
    • leon polk smith: antigravity, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, germany
  • 1998
    • leon polk smith: collages, 1954 – 1986, musée de grenoble, grenoble, france
  • 1996
    • leon polk smith: paintings of the nineties, jason mccoy inc., new york, ny, united states
  • 1995
    • leon polk smith: american painter, brooklyn museum, brooklyn, ny, united states
  • 1994
    • leon polk smith: works on paper, aca galleries, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith: blicke ins archiv, der galerie hoffmann, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, germany
  • 1993
    • leon polk smith: selected works, 1943 – 1992, brooklyn museum, brooklyn, ny, united states
  • 1992
    • leon polk smith: wegbereiter der hard-edge malerei, galerie istvan schlégel, zürich, switzerland
    • leon polk smith, iynedjian art galerie, lausanne, switzerland
  • 1991
    • leon polk smith: open door, gemälde und collagen von 1949 – 1991, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, germany
  • 1989
    • leon polk smith, wilhelm-hack-museum, ludwigshafen, germany
    • leon polk smith, traveled to the musée de grenoble, grenoble, france
    • leon polk smith: 35 years of color, meyers-bloom gallery, santa monica, ca, united states
  • 1987
    • leon polk smith: 5 decades of geometric inventions, dilaurenti gallery, new york, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith, traveled to r.h. love modern, chicago, il, united states
    • leon polk smith, the butler institute of american art, youngstown, oh, united states
    • leon polk smith: arbeiten von 1947 – 1987, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, germany
    • leon polk smith, burnett miller gallery, los angeles, ca, united states
    • leon polk smith: art basel, switzerland, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, germany
    • leon polk smith: four painters in new york, ruth siegel gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1986
    • leon polk smith: new works, dilaurenti gallery, new york, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith: torn drawing prints ’65, the brouhaha, providence, providence, ri, united states
    • leon polk smith: retrospective, the third international contemporary art fair, london, united kingdom
  • 1984
    • leon polk smith: constellations 1967 – 1973, washburn gallery, new york, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith: collagen 1981 – 1983, neue nationalgalerie, berlin, germany
  • 1983
    • leon polk smith, sheldon memorial art gallery and sculpture garden, university of nebraska, lincoln, ne, united states
  • 1982
    • leon polk smith: paintings 1945 – 1950 and recent paintings, in two locations of washburn gallery, new york, new york, ny, united states
  • 1981
    • leon polk smith: black and white tondos, washburn gallery, new york, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith: large paintings, 1979 – 1981, the fine arts center, state university of new york at stony brook, stony brook, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith, washburn gallery (113 greene street), new york, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith: drawings, collages and paintings, washburn gallery, (42 east 57th street), new york, new york, ny, united states
  • 1980
    • leon polk smith: constellations, washburn gallery, new york, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith: eight works, paintings and collages, the anderson gallery, virginia commonwealth university, richmond, richmond, va, united states
  • 1979
    • leon polk smith: painting and collages, 1954 – 1977,, gallery paula anglim, san francisco, ca, united states
    • leon polk smith, ace gallery, ltd, vancouver, bc, canada
    • leon polk smith, ace gallery, ltd, venice, los angeles, ca, united states
    • leon polk smith, internationaler kunstmarkt, cologne, germany
  • 1978
    • leon polk smith: a dialogue in black & white: an exhibition of paintings from 1946 – 1978, art gallery, state university of new york at old westbury, new york, ny, united states
  • 1977
    • leon polk smith, galerie denise rené, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith, pelham-von stoffler gallery, houston, tx, united states
  • 1975
    • leon polk smith, galerie denise rené, new york, ny, united states
  • 1973
    • leon polk smith, galerie denise rené, new york, ny, united states
  • 1970
    • leon polk smith: geometric painting 1945 – 1953 by leon polk smith, galerie chalette, new york, ny, united states
  • 1969
    • leon polk smith, museum of fine arts, fort worth, tx, united states
    • leon polk smith: constellations, galerie chalette, new york, ny, united states
  • 1968
    • leon polk smith: an exhibition of the poses, institute of fine arts, rose art museum brandeis university, waltham, ma, united states
    • leon polk smith, sfmoma san francisco museum of art, san francisco, ca, united states
    • leon polk smith, galerie chalette, new york, ny, united states
  • 1967
    • leon polk smith, galerie chalette, new york, ny, united states
  • 1965
    • leon polk smith: torn drawing, galerie chalette, new york, ny, united states
  • 1964
    • leon polk smith, galerie müller, stuttgart, germany
    • leon polk smith, studio galerie, frankfurt am main, germany
  • 1963
    • leon polk smith: recent paintings, sculptures, and reliefs, stable gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1962
    • leon polk smith, museo de bellas artes de caracas, caracas, venezuela
    • leon polk smith, munson–williams–proctor arts institue, utica, ny, united states
  • 1960
    • leon polk smith, betty parson gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1958
    • leon polk smith, camino gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • leon polk smith, betty parson gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1955
    • leon polk smith, mills college of education art gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1949
    • leon polk smith, rose fried gallery—the pinacotheca, new york, ny, united states
  • 1943
    • leon polk smith, santa fe museum, santa fe, nm, united states
  • 1941
    • leon polk smith, uptown gallery, new york, ny, united states

group exhibitions

  • 2023
    • circles and squares, addison & rowe, santa fe, nm, united states
    • in the middle of everywhere: artists on the great plains, remai modern art gallery, saskatoon, sk, canada
  • 2022
    • brooklyn abstraction: four artists, four walls, brooklyn museum, brooklyn, ny, united states
    • space time continuum, hauser and wirth, zürich, switzerland
  • 2021
    • franz mon & leon polk smith, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, germany
    • sub-shapes, cirrus gallery, los angeles, ca, united states
  • 2020
    • spectrum, lisson gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • mapping the collection, museum ludwig, cologne, germany
    • einblicke 1/21, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, germany
    • postwar abstract variations, okcmoa oklahoma city museum of art, oklahoma city, ok, united states
    • specific forms, loretta howard gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2019
    • into form: selections from the rose museum collection, 1957 – 2018, rose art museum, brandeis university, waltham, ma, united states
    • winter selections: prints & drawings, senior & shopmaker gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2018
    • recalibration, james mccoy gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • painting with method: neoavantgarde positions from the mumok collection, mumok- museum of modern art foundation ludwig wien, vienna, austria
    • abstraction: new acquisitions at the mead, mead art museum, amherst, ma, united states
    • summer scene, washburn gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • serigraphies, galerie denise rené, paris, france
    • re:construction, mcclain gallery, houston, tx, united states
    • the mid century modern aesthetic, alpha 137 gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • constructing constructivism, juan carlos maldonado art collection, miami, fl, united states
  • 2017
    • aspects of abstraction, lisson gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • iconoplastic: 100 years of de stijl, sotheby’s, new york, new york, ny, united states
    • the shape shifters, peyton wright gallery, santa fe, nm, united states
    • close up: the rocca foundation dresden/berlin, galerie gebr. lehmann, dresden, germany
    • collage: made in america, michael rosenfeld gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2016
    • the architecture of line: sol lewitt, donald judd, leon polk smith and others, jason mccoy gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • material witness, parrish art museum, watermill, new york, ny, united states
    • edge & color, finlay gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 2014
    • weiß – aspekte einer farbe in moderne und gegenwart, mik museum im kulturspeicher würzburg, würzburg, germany
    • into the future: new gifts to commemorate the museum’s 75th anniversary, palm springs museum of art, palm springs, ca, united states
    • the edge: color, line & time, levis fine art, new york, ny, united states
  • 2013
    • hard edge abstraction, james graham & sons, new york, ny, united states
    • painting-constructive, concrete, museum ritter, waldenbuch, germany
    • post war american art, levis fine art, new york, ny, united states
  • 2012
    • the geometric unconscious: a century of abstraction, sheldon museum of art, lincoln, ne, united states
    • leon polk smith, macba museo de arte contemporáneo de buenos aires, buenos aires, argentina
    • aufbruch, museum pfalzgalerie, kaiserslautern, germany
  • 2011
    • strahlend, aber..., edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, germany
    • raumformen / spaceforms, kubus in situation kunst (für max imdahl), bochum, germany
    • leon polk smith, henie onstad art centre, høvikodden, baerum, norway
    • wing/tuttle/seliger/smith, bow street gallery, raglan, new zealand
  • 2010
    • art cologne, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, cologne, germany
  • 2009
    • entwicklungen, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, germany
    • paper: pressed, stained, slashed, folded, the museum of modern art, new york, ny, united states
  • 2008
    • -+68 ist auch..., edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, germany
    • works on paper, albright-knox art gallery, buffalo, ny, united states
    • circa 1958: breaking ground in american art, ackland art museum, the university of north carolina of chapel hill, chapel hill, nc, united states
  • 2007
    • options within realism, jason mccoy gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • lines, grids, stains, words, the museum of modern art, new york, ny, united states
  • 2006
    • art cologne, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, cologne, germany
  • 2005
    • leon polk smith, wilhelm-hack-museum, ludwigshafen, germany
    • leon polk smith, milan dobeš museum, bratislava, slovakia
  • 2004
    • art cologne, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, cologne, germany
    • grenzüberschreitung/passing boundaries, galerie m, bochum, germany
    • leon polk smith, wilhelm-hack-museum, ludwigshafen, germany
  • 2003
    • hommage to the square, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, germany
    • leon polk smith, palais stutterheim, erlangen, germany
    • leon polk smith, ewz-unterwerk, selnau, switzerland
  • 2002
    • art cologne, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, cologne, germany
    • flatline, cirrus gallery, los angeles, ca, united states
  • 2000
    • eart concret, espace de l'art concret, mouans-sartoux, france
  • 1999
    • severed ear-the poetry of abstraction, creiger-dane gallery, boston, ma, united states
    • de l’expressionnisme abstrait a l’art minimal: peinture abstraiter aux estas-unis 1940 – 1960, musee fabre montpellier, montpellier, france
    • art cologne, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, cologne, germany
  • 1998
    • five sides to a square, associated american artist, new york city in association with galerie denise rené, paris, new york, ny, united states
    • defining the edge early american abstraction, selections from the collection of dr. peter b. fischer, michael rosenfeld gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • kunst in den treptowers, allianz versicherungs, ag. forster: ursala wenzel, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, berlin, germany
    • frederick kiesler/leon polk smith, jason mccoy, inc., new york, ny, united states
    • kunst im aufbruch, abstraktion zwischen 1945 und 1959, wilhelm-hack-museum, ludwigshafen, germany
  • 1997
    • inaugural exhebition, jason mccoy, inc chelsea, new york, ny, united states
    • the maximal sixties: pop, op, and figuration, the museum of modern art, new york, ny, united states
    • art basel, edition & galerie hoffmann, basel, switzerland
  • 1996
    • open door: konkrete kunst international, barscayhalle budapest ungarn, organisiert durch galerie & edition hoffmann, budapest, hungary
    • histoires de blanc et noir, musee de grenoble, grenoble, france
  • 1995
    • art basel, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, basel, switzerland
  • 1994
    • blicke ins archiv, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, germany
    • the constructive vocabulary-an american vision, galerie dr. istvan schlegl, zürich, switzerland
    • eloquent lines, louis stern gallery, los angeles, ca, united states
    • paths of abstraction: selections from the ciba art collection, hunter college of the city university of new york city, new york, ny, united states
    • art cologne, edition & galerie hoffmann, friedberg, cologne, germany
  • 1993
    • aus der sammlung ix, kunsthalle nürnberg, nuremberg, germany
    • in a classical vein, works from the permanent collection, whitney museum of american art, new york, ny, united states
  • 1991
    • 43rd american academy and institute of arts and letters purchase exhibition, american academy and institute of arts & letters, new york, ny, united states
    • drawings, gallery north, setauket, new york, ny, united states
    • post-war geometric concepts 1945 – 1990, marilyn pearl gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • between mondrian and minimalism: neo-plasticism in america, whitney museum of american art, federal reserve plaza, new york, ny, united states
  • 1990
    • 42nd american academy and institute of arts and letters purchase exhebition, american academy and institute of arts & letters, new york, ny, united states
    • konkret zehn, kunsthalle und kunsthaus nürnberg, nuremberg, germany
  • 1989
    • from mondrian to minimalism: american constructivism: 1945 – 1965, marilyn pearl gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • das quadratische feuer, edition & galerie hoffmann, museum moderner kunst landkreis cuxhaven, kunstverein friedberg, kunsthalle darmstadt
    • from mondrian to minimalism: american constructivism: 1945 – 1965, marilyn pearl gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1988
    • american exploration in geometry: color and surface, 1950s – 1960s, marilyn pearl gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1987
    • art basel, edition & galerie hoffmann, basel, switzerland
    • art cologne, edition & galerie hoffmann, cologne, germany
  • 1986
    • contemporary works from the collection, the museum of modern art, new york, ny, united states
  • 1985
    • the maximal implications of the minimal line, bard college, new york, ny, united states
  • 1984
    • ornithology: paintings and drawings, marilyn pearl gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1983
    • subtleties, the sutton gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • paintings of the fifties, marilyn pearl gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1982
    • purism, siegel contemporary art, inc, new york, ny, united states
    • painted objects, marilyn pearl gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1981
    • amerikanische malerei 1930 – 1981, haus der kunst, munich, germany
  • 1980
    • geometric tradition in american painting: 1920 – 1980, rosa esman gallery and marilyn pearl gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • time and space, washburn gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • 50th anniversary-gifts and purchases exhibition, whitney museum of american art, new york, ny, united states
  • 1979
    • black and white are colors, paintings of the 1950s – 1970s, galleries of the larchmont colleges, claremont, ca, united states
    • collection: art in america after world war ii, solomon r. guggenheim museum, new york, ny, united states
    • paintings and sculptures by candidates for art awards, american academy and institute of arts and letters, new york, ny, united states
    • mondrian and neo-plasticism in america, yale university art gallery, new haven, ct, united states
    • hassum and speicher purchase exhibition, american academy for arts and letters, new york, ny, united states
  • 1978
    • gallery group exhibition: stable plus guests, susan caldwell, inc., new york, ny, united states
  • 1977
    • the magic circle, the bronx museum of the arts, bronx, new york, ny, united states
    • paris-new york, musee national d’art moderns, paris, france
    • perspectives: three/three, drawings 1919 – 1957: le corbusier, heurtaux, herbin, kassak, picabia; collages 1940 – 1975, leon polk smith, pelham-van stoffler gallery, houston, tx, united states
    • tenth street days, the co-ops of the 50s, pleiades gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • american geometric abstract painting of the 1950s, marilyn pearl gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • line-weight -color, denise rené gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1976
    • contemporary paintings: joe and emily lowe art gallery, college of visual and performing arts, syracuse university, new york city, baltimore museum of art, maryland, md, united states
  • 1975
    • american art since 1945, traveling exhibition, museum of modern art, new york, ny, united states
  • 1974
    • celebration, sarah scaife gallery museum, of art, carnegie institute, pittsburgh, pittsburgh, pa, united states
    • contemporary art i, galerie denise rené-hans meyer, düsseldorf, germany
    • striped and shaped canvases, the bronx museum of the arts, bronx, new york, ny, united states
    • purism in new york, 1951 – 1963: black and white, buecher and harpsichords, new york, ny, united states
  • 1973
    • 15 artists americain, galerie denise rené, paris, france
    • visual r&d- a corporation collects, university art museum, university of texas, austin, tx, united states
    • post-mondrain abstraction in america, museum of contemporary art, chicago, il, united states
  • 1971
    • contemporary american drawings, french and company, new york, ny, united states
  • 1969
    • tamarind: homage to lithography, the museum of modern art, new york, ny, united states
  • 1966
    • fifty years of modern art 1916 – 1966, the cleveland museum of art, cleveland, oh, united states
    • twenty drawings: new acquisitions, the museum of modern art, new york, ny, united states
    • systemic paintings, the solomon r. guggenheim museum, new york, ny, united states
  • 1965
    • the responsive eye, the museum of modern art, new york, ny, united states
    • twenty-ninth biennial exhibition of contemporary american painting, the corcoran gallery, washington, d.c., united states
    • a decade of american drawings, 1955 – 1965, whitney museum of american art, new york, ny, united states
    • american collages, museum of modern art, new york, ny, united states
    • colorists, 1950 – 1965, san francisco museum of art, san francisco, ca, united states
    • 75th anniversary exhibition, three disinguished artists from oklahoma: lee mullican, joseph glasco, leon polk smith, museum of art (now fred jones jr. museum of art), university of oklahoma, norman, ok, united states
  • 1964
    • formalists, the washington gallery of modern art, washington, d.c., united states
    • the new formalists: contemporary american painting, the university of michigan museum of art, ann arbor, mi, united states
    • the classic spirit in 20th century art, sidney janis gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • 1964 annual exhibition of contemporary american sculpture, whitney museum of american art, new york, ny, united states
  • 1963
    • twenty-eighth biennial exhibition of contemporary american painting, the corcoran gallery, washington, d.c., united states
    • banners: a new art form, the american federation of arts, new york, ny, united states
  • 1962
    • geometric abstraction in america, whitney museum of american art, new york, ny, united states
    • 65th annual american exhibition: some directions in contemporary painting and sculpture, the art institute of chicago, chicago, il, united states
    • 1961, the dallas museum for contemporary arts, dallas, tx, united states
    • annual exhibition 1962: sculpture and drawings, whitney museum of american art, new york, ny, united states
  • 1961
    • six american abstract painters, arthur tooth and sons, london, united kingdom
    • purism, david herbert gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • american abstract expressionist and imagists, the solomon r. guggenheim museum, new york, ny, united states
    • the 1961 pittsburgh international exhibition of contemporary painting and sculpture, pittsburgh department of fine arts, carnegie institute, pittsburgh, pa, united states
  • 1960
    • modern classicism, david herbert gallery, new york, ny, united states
    • konkrete kunst: 50 jahre entwicklung, helmhaus zürich, zürich, switzerland
  • 1959
    • project 1: an exhibition, whitney museum of american art, new york, ny, united states
    • longview foundation purchases in modern american painting and sculpture for the union santorium association of the international ladies’ garment workers’ union, whitney museum of american art, new york, ny, united states
  • 1952
    • annual exhibition of contemporary american painting, whitney museum of american art, new york, ny, united states
  • 1949
    • post mondrian painters, sidney janis gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 1948
    • abstract and surrealist american art fifty-eighth annual exhibition of american paintings and sculpture, the art institute of chicago, chicago, il, united states
  • 1946
    • annual exhibition of contemporary american sculpture, watercolors and drawings, whitney museum of american art, new york, ny, united states
    • annual exhibition of contemporary american sculpture, watercolors and drawings, the pinacotheca, new york, ny, united states
    • five major works by stella, de kooning, smith, benn, hesketh, charles egan gallery, new york, ny, united states
  • 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 city, metropolitan museum of art, new york, ny, united states
  • 1941
    • international water color exhibition-eleventh biennal, the brooklyn museum, new york, ny, united states

public collections

    • carl & marilyn thoma art foundation, santa fe, nm, united states
    • indianapolis museum of art, indianapolis, in, united states
    • institut für diskrete mathematiks, bonn, germany
    • university of iowa stanley museum of art, iowa city, ia, united states
    • juan carlos maldonado art collection, miami, fl, united states
    • los angeles county museum of art, los angeles, ca, united states
    • museum of contemporary art, los angeles, los angeles, ca, united states
    • university museum of contemporary art, umass amherst, amherst, ma, united states
    • mead art museum, amherst college, amherst, ma, united states
    • menil collection, houston, tx, united states
    • metropolitan museum of art, new york, ny, united states
    • michele and donald d’amour museum, springfield, ma, united states
    • university of michigan museum of art, ann arbor, mi, united states
    • milwaukee art museum, milwaukee, wi, united states
    • montclair art museum, montclair, nj, united states
    • sammlung allianz, treptowers, berlin, germany
    • museo de arte contemporáneo de buenos aires, buenos aires, argentina
    • museum of modern art, new york, ny, united states
    • museum für konkrete kunst, ingolstadt, germany
    • wilhelm-hack-museum, ludwigshafen, germany
    • sammlung marli hoppe-ritter, waldenbuch, germany
    • the israel museum, jerusalem, israel
    • birmingham museum of art, birmingham, al, united states
    • the cleveland museum of art, cleveland, oh, united states
    • dallas museum of art, dallas, tx, united states
    • des moines art center, des moines, ia, united states
    • the modern art museum of fort worth, fort worth, tx, united states
    • moca grand avenue, los angeles, ca, united states
    • fred jones jr. museum of art, norman, ok, united states
    • morgan library & museum, new york, ny, united states
    • mumok, museum of modern art, ludwig foundation, vienna, austria
    • munson-williams-proctor arts institute, utica, ny, united states
    • museum of fine arts, boston, boston, ma, united states
    • brooklyn museum, new york, ny, united states
    • butler institute of american art, youngstown, oh, united states
    • carnegie museum of art, carnegie institute, pittsburgh, pa, united states
    • jp morgan chase art collection, new york, ny, united states
    • chau chak wing museum, university of sydney, sydney, australia
    • art institute of chicago, chicago, il, united states
    • museum of contemporary art, chicago, chicago, il, united states
    • cleveland clinic, cleveland, oh, united states
    • cleveland museum of art, cleveland, oh, united states
    • crystal bridges museum of american art, bentonville, ar, united states
    • detroit institute of arts, detroit, mi, united states
    • fogg art museum, harvard university museums, cambridge, ma, united states
    • foundation for art and preservation in embassies (fape), washington, d.c., united states
    • modern art museum of fort worth, fort worth, tx, united states
    • georgia museum of art, athens, ga, united states
    • musée de grenoble, grenoble, france
    • solomon r. guggenheim museum of art, new york, ny, united states
    • hallmark art collection, kansas city, mo, united states
    • heard museum, phoenix, az, united states
    • hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden, washington, d.c., united states
    • hood museum of art, hanover, nh, united states
    • museum of fine arts, houston, houston, tx, united states
    • albright-knox art gallery, buffalo, ny, united states
    • amarillo museum of art, amarillo, tx, united states
    • amon carter museum of american art, fort worth, tx, united states
    • birmingham museum of art, birmingham, al, united states
    • blanton museum of art, university of texas, austin, tx, united states
    • national gallery of art, washington, d.c., united states
    • neue nationalgalerie, berlin, germany
    • nelson-atkins museum of art, kansas city, mo, united states
    • nmn neues museum nürnberg kunst und design, nuremberg, germany
    • newark museum, newark, nj, united states
    • the new york public library, the miriam and ira d. wallach division of art, prints and photographs, new york, ny, united states
    • oklahoma city museum of art, oklahoma city, ok, united states
    • oklahoma state art collection, oklahoma city, ok, united states
    • oklahoma state university museum of art, stillwater, ok, united states
    • david owsley museum of art, ball state university, muncie, in, united states
    • palm springs art museum, palm springs, ca, united states
    • parrish art museum, southampton, united kingdom
    • museum pfalzgalerie kaiserslautern, kaiserslautern, germany
    • philadelphia museum of art, philadelphia, pa, united states
    • phoenix museum of art, phoenix, az, united states
    • pogue art gallery, east central university, ada, ok, united states
    • pollock-krasner house and study center, stony brook university, east hampton, ny, united states
    • portland art museum, portland, or, united states
    • risd museum, providence, ri, united states
    • rose museum, brandeis university, waltham, ma, united states
    • museum of contemporary art san diego, san diego, ca, united states
    • sheldon museum of art, university of nebraska, lincoln, ne, united states
    • vancouver art gallery, vancouver, bc, canada
    • wiesbaden museum of art, wiesbaden, germany
    • whitney museum of american art, new york, ny, united states
    • yale university art gallery, new haven, ct, united states

education

  • 1952
    • appointed professor of art, mills college of education, new york, ny, united states
  • 1940
    • assistant professor of art, georgia teachers college, statesboro, ga, united states
  • 1938
    • masters of arts in art and educational psychology, columbia university, new york, ny, united states
  • 1934
    • bachelor of arts in education degree with courses in psychology, columbia university, new york, ny, united states

supported by the federal minister for culture and media, neustart kultur and stiftung kunstfonds

Gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien
Gefördert durch Neustart Kultur
Gefördert von der Stiftung Kunstfonds