
Constellation Green Square Accent
Gift of The Leon Polk Smith Foundation
Catalogue
- Year
- 1971
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 209.6 × 181 × 2.9 cm (82 1/2 × 71 1/4 × 1 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Leon Polk Smith
Artist

Painting
Leon Polk Smith was an American abstract painter whose geometric compositions use bold, contrasting colors and clean linear forms to create optical dynamism. Working primarily in acrylic and oil, his paintings from the postwar period onward employed simple shapes, high-saturated color fields, and diagonal compositions that activate the entire canvas surface. Smith's reductive visual language anticipated color field painting while maintaining a distinct structural rigor rooted in precise geometry and architectural principles.
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- Leon Polk Smith
- Year
- 1971
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 209.6 × 181 × 2.9 cm (82 1/2 × 71 1/4 × 1 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1971-013408
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





