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Hassel Smith (born Hassell Wendell Smith Jr.; April 24, 1915 – January 2, 2007) was an American painter. Biography. Hassel Smith was born in 1915 in Sturgis, Michigan. During childhood and adolescence his family alternated between homes in Michigan and the West Coast, due to the health of his mother.
Hassel Smith was born to Hassel and Helen Adams Smith, Sr. on April 24 in Sturgis, Michigan, a small factory town between Detroit and Chicago. The family adopted a boy, Lewis, of the same age. Helen contracted tuberculosis.
Jan 2, 2007 · View all 13 artworks. Hassel Smith lived in the XX – XXI cent., a remarkable figure of American Abstract Expressionism and Abstract Art. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- American
- April 27, 1915
- Sturgis, Michigan, United States
- January 2, 2007
Hassel Smith. View Hassel Smith’s 88 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, works on paper, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist.
- American
Hassel Smith was active as a painter from the late 1930s to the late 1990s. His diverse oeuvre spans the seeming contradictions of abstraction/ figuration and expressionism/ hardedge. Yet the continuum of his praxis conforms readily to the dialectical progression of thesis-antithesis-synthesis.
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One wonders, for Hassel Smith as for so much of the history of Bay Area art, whether the record will ever be set straight. Smith’s exposure on the international scene has been recent; his first London exhibition was in 1960, his first New York exhibition in 1961. He has had two more exhibitions, in London in 1963 and this year in New York.
