Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith
Born
Leon Polk Smith

(1906-05-20)May 20, 1906
Chickasha, Territory of Oklahoma
DiedDecember 4, 1996(1996-12-04) (aged 90)
New York, New York movement = De Stijl, Hard-edge School, Minimalism
EducationPocasset High School; East Central University, BA; Columbia University Teacher's College, MA
Known forPainting
Notable workStonewall, (1956)
PartnerRobert Mead Jamieson (from ~1951)

Leon Polk Smith (1906–1996) was an American painter. His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and he is a follower of the hard-edge school. His best-known paintings constitute maximally reduced forms, characterized by just two colors on a canvas meeting in a sharply delineated edge, often on an unframed canvas of unusual shape. His work is represented in many museums in the United States, Europe, and South America. Thanks to a generous bequest from the artist, the Brooklyn Museum owns a number of his works.

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