Browse our paintings available for purchase PAINTINGS PRINTS Tour The Gallery TOUR the gallery About Maxwell Born in Czechoslovakia in 1930 to a Czech mother and Polish father, Maxwell Smart immigrated to Poland as an infant. There, his family joined the 5,000 other Jews of Buczacz (population 20,000) who prospered in commerce and in the manufacture of clothing and hats. Art classes were the delight of his early years at school, cut cruelly short when the Russians and Germans jousted for control