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Leon Polk Smith

1906–1996

New York abstract painter of Cherokee ancestry whose hard-edge trajectory is kept distinct from Abstract Expressionism even where later Native-art scholarship discusses him alongside George Morrison.

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  • Cherokee ancestry (Smithsonian source wording)

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The Archives of American Art states that both of Smith’s parents were of Cherokee ancestry. AEU records this as ancestry and does not infer tribal citizenship.

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The Archives of American Art describes Smith as a New York-based painter considered one of the founders of hard-edge minimalist abstraction.

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