Six of his nine paintings at the temporary home of the Arts Club of Chicago--formerly the B.C. Holland gallery, 222 W. Superior St.--are portraits of famous modern American writers. Smith bases the paintings on well-known photographs, such as Richard Avedon's portrait of Ezra Pound screaming, with eyes closed and chest bared. In the first of three Pound pictures, Smith reproduces the Avedon image fully, only to enlarge and crop it in the others, which introduce various exaggerations of anatomy.