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RSS FeedsBlanton Museum of Ar acquires trove of Leon Polk Smith
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19 august 2017 04:31:56

 
Blanton Museum of Ar acquires trove of Leon Polk Smith
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Director Simone Wicha of the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has announced that the museum has received a gift of seven works by the seminal American abstract painter Leon Polk Smith (1906–1996). The works come to the museum from the Leon Polk Smith Foundation and longtime Austin philanthropists Jeanne and Michael Klein. `We`re honored that the Leon Polk Smith Foundation chose the Blanton as the steward of these paintings and drawings,` Wicha said. `This concentration of works by Leon Polk Smith brings historical depth to our holdings of postwar American painting and allows us to highlight Smith’s pioneering role in the development of abstract painting in the United States, from the new dynamism he brought to geometric abstraction to his prescient shaped canvases.` “Three elements which have interested me in art,” Smith wrote in 1961, “are: line, color, and the concept of space


 
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