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PAUL SMITH
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PAUL SMITH

PAUL SMITH

1931 - 2020

BORN

1931

DIED

2020

PAUL SMITH Obituary

SMITH--Paul J. The Lenore G. Tawney Foundation mourns the loss of influential curator and board president, Paul J. Smith, on April 26 in New York. Paul and Lenore Tawney both moved to New York in 1957 and formed a friendship that endured for the next 50 years. As director of the Museum of Contemporary Crafts (later the American Craft Museum and Museum of Arts and Design), Paul featured Tawney's work in the seminal 1963 exhibition, Woven Forms, and later initiated her important 1990 career retrospective. He joined the board of the Foundation in 1996 at Tawney's request, and has generously contributed his time and expertise ever since. Paul's commitment to Lenore Tawney's legacy and to the studio craft movement was unwavering, and he will be greatly missed.

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Published by New York Times on May 6, 2020.

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Simone Taylor

May 9, 2020

Please except my deepest sympathies, Grief can be so hard, but your special memories help you to cope. Remembering your loved one today and always.

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