Private Life
Smith met his wife, opera singer, Jane Lawrence, in New York in 1943. They were married in Santa Monica with Tennessee Williams as his best man. He was the father of artists Chiara "Kiki" Smith, Seton Smith, and the underground actress Beatrice (Bebe) Smith (Seton's twin), who died in 1988. At the time of his death, he and his family resided in South Orange, New Jersey.
In 1961, Smith was injured in a car accident and subsequently developed a blood condition which produces a large number of red blood cells called polycythemia. His health was always questionable and deteriorated until he succumbed to a heart attack at age 68.
The Estate of Tony Smith is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.
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“As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)