| . "Intergenerational Abstraction". Art in America, vol. 111, no. 3 (summer 2023). 2023. | 60 | 2023 | | |
| ahtone, heather. "Mapping Modernism: Intersections of Place and Space". In: Taylor, Tobi Lopez (editor). Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight. Phoenix, Arizona: Heard Museum. 2021. | 84-93 | 2021 | Essay in the exhibition catalog to "Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight", organized by the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, and held February 5, 2021-May 31, 2021. Includes endnotes. | |
| Alloway, Lawrence (curator, essayist). Systemic Painting. New York, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. 1966. | 13, 52, 63 | 1966 | Catalog of an exhibition held September-November 1966 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York. Catalog also available online via the Internet Archive. | View |
| Alloway, Lawrence (essayist). Leon Polk Smith. San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Art. 1968. | | 1968 | Catalog of an exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California. Venues include the Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, April 15, 1968-May 8, 1968; and the San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, May 21, 1968-June 30, 1968. | |
| Alloway, Lawrence (essayist). Leon Polk Smith. San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Art. 1968. | | 1968 | Catalog of an exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California. Venues include the Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, April 15, 1968-May 8, 1968; and the San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, May 21, 1968-June 30, 1968. Print-out from a scan provided by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. | |
| Armstrong, Tom and Bernd Growe. Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980: [Ausstellung], Haus der Kunst, München, 14. November 1981 bis 31. Januar 1982. München, Germany: Ausstellungsleitung Haus der Kunst München. 1981. | 59, 68, 87, 96 | 1981 | Exhibition organized by Haus der Kunst München e.V., Germany, in cooperation with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New Yor. Includes bibliographical references and index. | |
| Armstrong, Tom and Don Freeman (principal photographer). A Singular Vision: Architecture, Art, Landscape. New York, New York: Quantuck Lane Press. 2011. | 97, 200-202, 223 | 2011 | Includes color reproductions of the artwork of Leon Polk Smith that was used as interior decoration. Leon Polk Smith's 1948 painting "Red-Black-White" featured. | |
| Augaitis, Daina and Jesse McKee (editors, curators). Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Vancouver Art Gallery. 2016. | 84-85, 138 | 2016 | Features Krista Belle Stewart's 2016 installation "Indian Artists at Work" with Leon Polk Smith's 1958 painting "Arizona Heat Wave". | Catalog of the exhibition "Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures", organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and curated by Daina Augaitis and Jesse McKee, from December 3, 2016 to April 17, 2017. | |
| Baker, Joe. "Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight". Earthsong, winter 2021. 2021. | 6-9 | 2021 | | |
| Baker, Joe. "Leon Polk Smith: Place Has No Distance". In: Taylor, Tobi Lopez (editor). Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight. Phoenix, Arizona: Heard Museum. 2021. | 20-27 | 2021 | Essay in the exhibition catalog to "Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight", organized by the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, and held February 5, 2021-May 31, 2021. Includes bibliographical references. | |
| Bard, Joellen. Tenth Street Days: the Co-ops of the 50's: the Galleries, Tanager, Hansa, James, Camino, March, Brata, Phoenix, Area: an Artist-Initiated Exhibition, Works from 1952-1962. New York, New York: Education, Art & Service, Inc.. 1977. | 21, 26 | 1977 | Researched and organized by Joellen Bard, in co-operation with Pleiades Gallery and the Association of Artist-Run Galleries; traveling exhibition circulated by the Gallery Association of New York Stat ; work selected for travel by Dore Ashton and Joellen Bard. Held December 20, 1976-January 7, 1977 at the following artist-run galleries in New York City: Amos Eno Gallery, 14 Sculptors Gallery, Noho Gallery, Pleiades Gallery, and the Ward-Nasse Gallery. | |
| Carnegie Institute Museum of Art. 1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, October 27, 1967-January 7, 1968.. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Institute Press. 1967. | entry no. 303 | 1967 | Leon Polk Smith's 1966 painting "Red Arcs". | Catalog of an exhibition. | |
| Cinema I and Cinema II. The Permanent Art Collection and the Third Invitational Art Exhibit. New York, New York: Cinema I and Cinema II. 1962. | panel 3 | 1962 | Exhibit catalog brochure. Third Invitational Art Exhibit held at Cinema I and Cinema II, New York, New York, features artists Leon Polk Smith and Robert Engman. | |
| Gassen, Richard W. and Gabriele Gassen. Leon Polk Smith. Ludwigshafen, Germany: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum. 1999. | | 1999 | Catalog of an exhibition held at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, with text in German and English. | |
| Heard Museum. "[Advertisement] 'Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight', February 5-May 31, 2021". Artforum International, vol. 59, no. 5 (March 2021). 2021. | 101 | 2021 | | |
| Hughes, Robert. "A Disciple's Progress". Time, vol. 102, no. 27 (December 31, 1973). 1973. | 46 | 1973 | Appears in the "Art" section of the magazine issue. | |
| Hughes, Robert (essayist). Leon Polk Smith, March 4-April 4, 1981, Paintings, Drawings and Collages. New York, New York: Washburn Gallery. 1981. | | 1981 | Catalog brochure of an exhibition held at Washburn Gallery, New York, New York, March 4, 1981-April 4, 1981. | |
| Jones, Caroline A. The Global Work of Art: World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. 2016. | 131 | 2016 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | |
| Katz, Jonathan David (essayist). Endless Space, Sep 13-Nov 23, 2019, Gray Warehouse, Chicago. Chicago, Illinois: Richard Gray Gallery. 2019. | | 2019 | Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition "Leon Polk Smith: Endless Space" held September 13, 2019-November 23, 2019, at the Gray Warehouse, Chicago, Illinois. Includes 9-page artist biography. | |
| Klaric, Arlette (essayist, curator). Leon Polk Smith: Back to Oklahoma. Stillwater, Oklahoma: Oklahoma State University Museum of Art. 2019. | | 2019 | Catalog of an exhibition held May 31, 2016-September 3, 2016, at the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma. | |
| Lauder, Adam. "Rita Letendre's Astral Abstractions". American Indian Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 1-2 (winter-spring 2022). 2022. | 94-122 | 2022 | Also places Rita Letendre in context with Alex Janvier and Leon Polk Smith. Includes bibliographical references. | |
| Leon Polk Smith Foundation. Leon Polk Smith Foundation. URL: http://leonpolksmithfoundation.org/. 2018. | | 2018 | Various pages devoted to Leon Polk Smith including Art Work, Life, Exhibitions, Research Resources, Public Collections, The Foundation, and Contact in the Leon Polk Smith Foundation website (viewed December 23, 2018). "The Leon Polk Smith Foundation was established to preserve and promote the art and legacy of Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996)." | View |
| Lewis, Randolph. "Native Roots of Modern Art: Rereading the Paintings of Leon Polk Smith". American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1 (winter 2001). 2001. | | 2001 | | |
| Martine, David Bunn. The Old Becomes the New: New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement and the New York School. New York, New York: American Indian Artists, Inc. (AMERINDA). 2013. | 7-8, 35, 51 | 2013 | Catalog of an exhibition held April 3, 2013-June 2, 2013, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, New York. Participating artists include Nadema Agard, Neal Ambrose-Smith, Vernon B. Bigman, Pena Bonita, Lorenzo Clayton, Jimmie Durham, Yatika Starr Fields, Jeffrey Gibson, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Maria Hupfield, G. Peter Jemison, Brad Kahlhamer, Athena LaTocha, Jason Lujan, Mario Martinez, Alec Montroy, George Morriso, Jude Norris, Lloyd Oxendine, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Diane Schenandoah, Leon Polk Smith, Melissa Staiger, and Marie Watt. | |
| Martine, David Bunn and Jennifer Tromski (editor). No Reservation: New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement. New York, New York: American Indian Artists, Inc. (AMERINDA). 2017. | 60-69 | 2017 | Includes an interview with Dore Ashton regarding Leon Polk Smith and the New York Native art movement. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | |
| McShine, Kynaston (essayist) and Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (organizer). American Collages. Copenhagen, Denmark: Court Gallery. 1967. | publication not paginated | 1967 | Catalog of an exhibition held January 6-23, 1967, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum. | |
| Mellow, James R. "Leon Polk Smith's Maverick Attitude". New York Times (National edition), Saturday, December 8, 1973. 1973. | 29 | 1973 | Exhibition review of Leon Polk Smith's one-person show of some 24 works on view at the Galerie Denise René, 6 West 57th Street, New York, New York, December 1973. Newspaper article. | |
| Murray, Mary E. and Jonathan D. Katz (essayist). Geometry in Motion: Leon Polk Smith Works on Paper. Utica, New York: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. 2017. | | 2017 | Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, and held October 7, 2017-December 31, 2017. | |
| Oklahoma State University Museum of Art. The Leon Polk Smith Collection, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art. Stillwater, Oklahoma: Oklahoma State University Museum of Art. 2015. | | 2015 | 10-panel folding brochure; includes bibliographical notes and list of illustrations. | |
| Pardue, Diana F. and Roshii Montaño (project coordinators, essayists). Maria & Modernism. Phoenix, Arizona: Heard Museum. 2024. | 132-133 | 2024 | Catalog of the exhibition "Maria & Modernism", organized by the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, and presented February 24, 2024-July 28, 2024. | |
| Pincus-Witten, Robert (essayist). Post-Mondrian Abstraction in America, March 31 to May 13, 1973, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois. Chicago, Illinois: Museum of Contemporary Art. 1973. | catalog not paginated | 1973 | Includes bibliographical sketch by Leon Polk Smith with an example of his work. | Catalog of an exhibition; includes bibliographical references. | |
| Poullain, Christine (writer of commentary). Leon Polk Smith: Collages 1954-1986. Grenoble, France: Musée de Grenoble. 1998. | | 1998 | "On the occasion of a retrospective in 1989 at the Musée de Grenoble, he gave 34 collages evoking the great periods of his activity. This set sheds new light on the creative process of this major artist in the evolution of American painting in the 1950s."--Google translation of publisher's description in French. | |
| Ratcliff, Carter. "New World View: Passages, Carter Ratcliff on Leon Polk Smith". Artforum International, vol. 36, no. 7 (March 1997). 1997. | 14 | 1997 | | |
| Ratcliff, Carter, Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Arthur C. Danto, and John Alan Farmer. Leon Polk Smith, American Painter. Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Museum. 1996. | | 1996 | Catalog of an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, September 29, 1995-January 7, 1996. Includes chronology, list of exhibitions and bibliographical references | |
| Roche, David M. "Leon Polk Smith: Schockt Noch Immer = Leon Polk Smith: Still Shocking". In: Schaschi, Sabine (editor, curator, writer of commentary). Leon Polk Smith: Going Beyond Space. Berlin, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh. 2023. | | 2023 | In English and German; includes bibliographical references. Written for the exhibition catalog,"Leon Polk Smith: Going Beyond Space" for the exhibition organized by and held at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland, February 9, 2023-May 7, 2023. | |
| Sam, Sherman. "[Exhibition review] Leon Polk Smith, Lisson Gallery, London". Artforum, vol. 57, no. 7 (March 2019). 2019. | 235 | 2019 | | |
| Schaschi, Sabine (editor, curator, writer of commentary). Leon Polk Smith: Going Beyond Space. Berlin, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh. 2023. | | 2023 | Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by and held at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland, February 9, 2023-May 7, 2023; text by John Koegel, David M. Roche, Sabine Schaschl, Patterson Sims, Brandon Taylor, and Margit Weinberg Staber. | |
| Schwabsky, Barry. "Leon Polk Smith, Jason McCoy Gallery". Artforum International, vol. 36, no. 7 (March 1997). 1997. | 92 | 1997 | Exhibition review. | |
| Schwabsky, Barry. "Leon Polk Smith's Color Lines: Revisiting the Painter's Hard-Edge Abstractions Today Reveals a Nuanced Engagement with Identity at Midcentury". Art in America, vol. 111, no. 3 (summer 2023). 2023. | 58-60 | 2023 | Appears in the "Spotlight" section of host magazine issue. | |
| Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe (essayist). Leon Polk Smith: Raumformen = Spaceforms. Heidelberg, Germany: Wunderhorn Verlag. 2011. | | 2011 | Catalog of an exhibition at Situation Kunst (for Max Imdahl), Bochum, May 5, 2011-September 4, 2011. Includes bibliographical references. | |
| Smith, Leon Polk. Leon Polk Smith: Collagen, 1981-1983, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 31. Mai-29. Juli, 1984. Berlin, Germany: Nationalgalerie Staaliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz. 1984. | | 1984 | Catalog of an exhibition of collages by Leon Polk Smith with essay by Lucius Grisebach. | |
| Smith, Leon Polk (artist). Leon Polk Smtih: Torn Drawings. New York, New York: Galerie Chalette. 1965. | | 1965 | Published on the occasion of an exhibition in October 1965 at the Galerie Chalette, New York, New York. | |
| Smith, Leon Polk (artist) and Ina Prinz (editor). Leon Polk Smith im Arithmeum. Bonn, Germany: Bouvier. 2001. | | 2001 | Catalog of an exhibition held at the Arithmeum im Forschungsinstitut für Diskrete Mathematik. | |
| Smith, Leon Polk (artist), Richard W. Gassen, and Jean-Paul Monery. Leon Polk Smith: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 4.2.-27.3.1989 : Musée de Grenoble, 12.5.-10.7.1989. Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum. 1989. | | 1989 | Catalog of an exhibition. | |
| Smith, Leon Polk (artist, interviewee) and Brooke Kamin Rapaport (interviewer). Leon Polk Smith: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw. New York, New York: Washburn Gallery. 2013. | | 2013 | Catalog brochure published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Washburn Gallery, New York, New York, November 1, 2013-January 25, 2014. | |
| Smith, Leon Polk and Carter Ratcliff (essayist). Leon Polk Smith: 5 Decades of Geometric Inventions: May 7-June 19, 1988, the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. New York, New York: DiLaurenti Gallery Ltd.. 1987. | | 1987 | Catalog of an exhibition held at R.H. Love Modern, Chicago, Illinois, January 22, 1988-February 27, 1988; and the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, May 7, 1988-June 19, 1988. | |
| Smith, Leon Polk with essay by Robert T. Buck. Leon Polk Smith, American Original. Norman, Oklahoma: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. 2006. | | 2006 | Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma, held June 24, 2006-September 24, 2006. | |
| Taylor, Tobi Lopez (editor). Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight. Phoenix, Arizona: Heard Museum. 2021. | | 2021 | Exhibition catalog to "Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight", organized by the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, and held February 5, 2021-May 31, 2021. Includes essays and bibliographical references. | |
| Wikipedia contributors. "Leon Polk Smith". In: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (host URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/) at source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Polk_Smith. 2006. | | 2006 | Current entry on Leon Polk Smith in Wikipedia (viewed December 23, 2018); webpage created February 21, 2006, and revised and updated irregularly. | View |
| Willard, Charlotte. "Drawing Today". Art in America, vol. 52, no. 5 (October 1964). 1964. | 57, 67 | 1964 | "A taste for drawing is both sophisticated and hard to gratify, for exhibitions of work by contemporary artists tend to ignore this form. Here Charlotte Willard, art critic for the New York Post and a contributing editor of Art in America, has assembled a show--in print-- by fifty-three of today's leading painters and sculptors, which can be seen in actuality from Oct. 20 through Oct. 31 at New York's FAR Gallery". Includes painters Leon Polk Smith and Robert Rauschenberg among others. | |
| Yau, John (essayist) and Alex Logsdail and Jeannie Freilich (editors). Leon Polk Smith. New York, New York: Lisson Gallery. 2017. | | 2017 | Catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Lisson Gallery, New York, New York, September 8, 2017-October 21, 2017. Includes bibliographical references and chronology. | |
| Zelevansky, Lynn (editor). Leon Polk Smith: Prairie Moon. New York, New York: Lisson Gallery. 2021. | | 2021 | Catalog of an exhibition held at Lisson Gallery, New York, New York, September 9, 2021-October 16, 2021. Contributors include Elizabeth Buhe and Lawrence Alloway. | |
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