Selected Listing
- 1968 San Francisco
- Lawrence Alloway. Leon Polk Smith. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1968. Essay reprinted in Lawrence Alloway, Topics in American Art Since 1945. New York: W. W. Norton, 1975, 67-75.
- 1970 New York
- Lawrence Alloway. Leon Polk Smith’s Geometric Paintings 1945-1953. New York: Galerie Chalette, 1970.
- 1973 New York
- Leon Polk Smith. New York: Galerie Denise Rene, 1973. Essay by Nicolas Calas and Elena Calas; reprinted from Nicolas Calas and Elena Calas. Icons and Images of the Sixties. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1971.
- 1978 Old Westbury
- Jean E. Feinberg. Leon Polk Smith: A Dialogue in Black and White. Old Westbury, New York: College at Old Westbury Art Gallery, State University of New York, 1978.
- 1984 Berlin
- Leon Polk Smith: Collagen 1981-1983. Berlin: Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1984. Essay by Lucius Grisebach.
- 1987 Youngstown
- Carter Ratcliff. Leon Polk Smith: 5 Decades of Geometric Inventions. Youngstown, Ohio: The Butler Institute of American Art, 1987.
- 1987 New York
- Carter Ratcliff. Leon Polk Smith: 5 Decades of Geometric Invention. New York: Di Laurenti Gallery, 1987.
- 1989 Ludwigshafen-Grenoble
- Leon Polk Smith. Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum; Grenoble: Musee de Grenoble, 1989. Essay in German edition by Richard W. Gassen; essay in French edition by Jean-Paul Monery.
- 1993 Brooklyn
- Leon Polk Smith, Selected Works 1943-1992: Promised Gift to The Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1993. Essay by Robert T Buck.
- 1995 Brooklyn
- Carter Ratliff, Robert T. Buck, Brooke Kamin Rappaport, Arthur C. Danto, John Alan Farmer. Leon Polk Smith: American Painter. Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum, 1995.
- 1997 New York
- Leon Polk Smith, Paintings of the Nineties. New York: Jason McCoy Gallery, 1997.
- 1999 Bonn
- Leon Polk Smith. Richard W. Gassen: Homage to Leon Polk Smith. Bonn, Germany: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Kunstler und Autoren, 1999.
- 2001 Bonn
- Leon Polk Smith im Arithmeum. Arithmeum, rechen einst und heute, Forschungsintitut fur discrete Mathematik, Bonn, University of Bonn, Bouvier, 2001.
- 2006 Norman
- Leon Polk Smith: American Original. Robert Buck. Fred Jones J. Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma. 2006
- 2011 Bochum:
- Leon Polk Smith Raumformen/Spaceforms. Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe. Bochum, Germany: Stiftung Situation Kunst, Bochum. Wunderhorn Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011.