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Abstract expressionism, Figurative painting. Spouse (s) June Myers (m. 1942–1958; death), Donna Raffety Harrington (m. 1958–) Children. Bruce Smith (musician) Mark Harrington (painter) (stepson) Hassel Smith (born Hassell Wendell Smith Jr.; April 24, 1915 – January 2, 2007) was an American painter.
Biography. 1915. 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. 1918-23.
Nacimiento: 27 de abril de 1915; Sturgis, Michigan, United States
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Hassel Smith. 1915–2007. American. Summary. Artist in all media, latterly mostly acrylic on canvas, and teacher, born in Sturgis, Michigan, America. Smith studied art history and practice, 1932–6, at Northwestern University, Illinois, then painting, 1936–8, at California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco.
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Biography. 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.
