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1941
- International Water Color Exhibition-Eleventh Biennial
The Brooklyn Museum, New York City, March 28-May 11 -
1943
- Contemporary American Paintings from the Collection of the University of Arizona
Presented under the Auspices of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 3-May 13 -
1946
- Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings
Whitney Museum of American Art, February 5-March 13
The Pinacotheca, New York City, March 15-April 13Five Major Works by Stella, De Kooning, Smith, Benn, Hesketh
Egan Gallery, New York City, closed September 30 -
1948
- Abstract and Surrealist American Art Fifty-eighth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1947-1948 -
1949
- Post Mondrian Painters
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, May 16-June 11 -
1952
- Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 1952-1953 -
1959
- Project 1: An Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NYLongview Foundation Purchases in Modern American Painting and Sculpture for the Union Santorium Association of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, June 9-21 -
1960
- Modern Classicism
David Herbert Gallery, New York City, February 8-27Konkrete Kunst: 50 Jahre Entwicklung
Helmaus Zurich, Germany, June 8-August 14 -
1961-1962
- Six American Abstract Painters
Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, January 24-February 18Purism
David Herbert Gallery, New York City, October 2-28American Abstract Expressionist and Imagists
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, October 13-December 31The 1961 Pittsburgh International exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
Pittsburgh Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pennsylvania, October 27-January 7, 1962 -
1962
- 65th Annual American Exhibition: Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
The Art Institute of Chicago, January 5 – February 18Geometric Abstraction in America
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, March 20- May 13, 19621961
The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, April 3 – May 13 -
1963-1964
- Annual Exhibition 1962: Sculpture and Drawings
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, December 12, 1962 – February 3Twenty-eighth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, January18-March 3Formalists
The Washington Gallery of Modern Art, June 6 – July 7 -
1963-65
- Banners: A New Art Form
The American Federation of Arts, New York City, October 9, 1963 – April 28, 1965 -
1964
- The New Formalists: Contemporary Amerian Painting
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, January 15 – February 9The Classic Spirit in 20th Century Art
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, February 4 – 29 -
1964-65
- 1964 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, December 9, 1964 – January 31, 1965
Daniels Gallery, New York City, December 22, 1964 – January 23, 1965 -
1965
- The Responsive Eye
The Museum of Modern Art, February 23 – April 25Twenty-ninth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, February 26 – April 18An Exhibition of Retinal and Perceptual Art
The University Art Museum of The University of Texas, April 11-May 9A Decade of American Drawings, 1955-1965
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, April 29-June 6American Collages
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, May 11-July 25Colorists, 1950-965
San Franicsco, Museum of Art, October 15-November 2175th Anniversary Exhibition, Three Disinguished Artists from Oklahoma: Lee Mullican, Joseph Glasco, Leon Polk Smith
Museum of Art(Now Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art), University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma -
1966
- Fifty Years of Modern Art, 1916-1966
The Cleveland Museum of Art, June 14-July 31Twenty Drawings: New Acquisitions
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, August 2-October 2Systemic Paintings
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, September 21-November 27 -
1973
- 15 Artists Americains
Galerie Denise René, Paris, FranceVisual R & D- A Corporation Collects
University Art Museum, University of Texas at AustinPost-Mondrian Abstraction in America
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois -
1974
- Celebration, Sarah Scaife Gallery Museum, of Art
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaContemporary Art I
Galerie Denise René-Hans Meyer, Dusseldorf, West GermanyStriped and Shaped Canvases
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York CityPurism in New York, 1951-1963: Black and White
Buecher and Harpsichords, New York City -
1975
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Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
American Art Since 1945
traveling exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts -
1976
- Contemporary Paintings
Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, New York City
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland -
1977
- The Magic Circle
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York CityParis-New York
Musee National D’Art Moderns, ParisPerspectives: Three/Three, Drawings 1919-1957: Le Corbusier, Heurtaux, Herbin, Kassak, Picabia; Collages 1940-1975, Leon Polk Smith
Pelham-Van Stoffler Gallery, Houston, TexasTenth Street Days, The Co-Ops of the 50s
Pleiades Gallery, New York CityAmerican Geometric Abstract Painting of the 1950s
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York CityLine-Weight -Color
Denise René Gallery, New York City -
1978
- Gallery Group Exhibition: Stable Plus Guests
Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City -
1979
- Black and White are Colors, Paintings of the 1950s-1970s
Galleries of the Larchmont Colleges, Claremont, CaliforniaCollection: Art in America After World War II
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York CityPaintings and Sculptures by Candidates for Art Awards
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York CityMondrian and Neo-Plasticism in America
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, ConnecticutHassum and Speicher Purchase Exhibition
American Academy for Arts and Letters, New York City -
1980
- Geometric Tradition in American Painting: 1920-1980
Rosa Esman Gallery and Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York CityTime and Space
Washburn Gallery, New York City50th Anniversary-Gifts and Purchases Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City -
1981-82
- Amerikanische Malerie 1930-1981
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany -
1982
- Purism
Siegel Contemporary Art, Inc., New York CityPainted Objects
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York City -
1983
- Subtleties
The Sutton Gallery, New York City -
1990
- 42nd American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Purchase Exhibition
American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York City, NY -
1991
- 43rd American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Purchase Exhibition
American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York City, NYDrawings
Gallery North, Setauket, New York CityPost-War Geometric Concepts 1945-1990
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York CityBetween Mondrian and Minimalism: Neo-Plasticism in America
Whitney Museum of American Art, Federal Reserve Plaza, New York City -
1993
- Aus Der Sammlung IX
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, GermanyIn a Classical Vein, Works From the Permanent Collection
October 1993- April 1994, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City -
1994
- The Constructive Vocabulary-An American Vision
Galerie Dr. Istvan Schlegl, ZurichEloquent Lines
Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CaliforniaPaths of Abstraction: Selections from the Ciba Art Collection
Hunter College of the City University of New York City -
1996
- Histoires de Blanc et Noir
Musee de Grenoble, France, May 23-August 19Open Door
Konkrete Kunst International Barscay-Halle, Budapest, Hungary, Organized by Hoffmann Galeria, Friedberg, Germany -
1997
- Inaugural Exhibition
Jason McCoy, Inc. Chelsea, New York City -
1998
- Five Sides to a Square
Associated American Artist, New York City
in association with Galerie Denise René, ParisDefining the Edge Early American Abstraction, Selections from the Collection of Dr. Peter B. Fischer
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York CityKunst in den Treptowers
Allianz Versicherungs, AG. Forster: Ursala Wenzel, Courtesy Gallerie Hoffmann Friedberg, GermanyFrederick Kiesler/Leon Polk Smith
Jason McCoy, Inc., New York CityKunst im Aufbruch, Abstraktion Zwischen 1945 und 1959
Willem-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany -
1999
- Severed Ear-The Poetry of Abstraction,
Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MassachusettsDe L’Expressionnisme Abstrait a L’Art Minimal: Peinture Abstraiter Aux Estas-Unis 1940-1960
Musee Fabre Montpellier, France, July 1-October 3 -
2008
- Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art,
Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina of Chapel Hill, North Carolina (September 21 – January 4, 2009) -
2011
- Raumformen / Spaceforms
Städtische Galerie KUBUS in Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), Hannover, Germany (May 5th – September 4th) -
2012
- The Geometric Unconscious: A century of Abstraction,
edited by Jorge Daniel Veneciano, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska and London, England -
2014
- Into the Future: New Gifts to Commemorate the Museum’s 75th Anniversary,
Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, California -
2017
- Aspects of Abstraction
Lisson Gallery, New York City