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Interlocking Form, Black-Gray

Leon Polk Smith
1906-1996

Interlocking Form, Black-Gray

1958
25 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (648 x 495 mm)
Acrylic paint over graphite on wove paper.
2010.10

Gift of the Leon Polk Smith Foundation.

© Leon Polk Smith / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Notes
An abstract painter throughout his life, Leon Polk Smith developed a distinct formal vocabulary which combined Native American motifs -- reflecting his Cherokee heritage -- with European modernism. Mondrian, whose work Smith first saw in 1936 while attending summer school in New York City, was a major influence although Smith went beyond the constraints of Neoplasticism to explore a wide range of geometric compositions, often based on interlocking forms. Smith's hard-edge style and vast expanses of color anticipated the minimalist movement of the 1960s.
Inscriptions/Markings
Initialed (LPS) and dated ('58), lower right.
Classification
Century Drawings