Prominent in the Chicago art world during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, Willard Smythe was a painter in an abstract, hard-edged style, which was geometric and influenced by the Synthetic Cubism of Picasso and Braque. Smythe called his style "Scattered Balance Design".
He was also a noted graphic designer and was a member of 27 Chicago Designers. He won many awards in this field including the award of excellence in 1937 and 1952 from the American Institute of Graphic Arts and in 1931, a top (showing 500 of 1175 characters). |
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