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CHARLES W. SMITH Abstract Composition.
Block painting, circa 1958. 557x417 mm; 21 3/4x16 3/8 inches. With a letter from Smith to Theodore Sizer, former head of the Cleveland Art Museum and art history professor of Smith's at Yale.
An accomplished book designer, Charles W. Smith is credited with developing a method of block painting in which he sought to exlplore the spacial relationship between abstract figures. Printing each form in a composition from individual blocks, Smith merged the disciplines of printmaking and painting.
