Inch Squares No. 3
Leon Polk Smith, Cherokee / American, 1906 - 1996
Cherokee
Southeast
1948-1949
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 48 × 26 in. (121.9 × 66 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund and the Julia L. Whittier Fund
2012.17
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Fluxus
Painting
Native American: Southeast
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Winter 2015
ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States. Mary Coffey, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France.
Gesture, Emotion, Shape: Sources of Abstraction by Philip Dytko, Class of 2017, Pauline Lewis, Class of 2016, and Amalia Siegel, Class of 2016, Art History 71: The American Century- Modern Art in the United States, Winter 2015, Mary Coffey, Class Project, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 14-July 12, 2015.
Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, New York.
The Painter's Hand: U.S. Abstraction since 1950, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe-Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-December 9, 2023.
Provenance
The Leon Polk Smith Foundation and Trust; sold to present collection, 2012.
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