The sculptor David Smith (1906-65) always insisted that he “belonged with painters.” He probably meant it quite literally. Most of his closest friends and colleagues were painters: in the Twenties and ...
Now “David Smith: The Nature of Sculpture,” at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park here, examines the multifaceted relationship of Smith’s work to the natural world, especially landscape, ...
"How does photography shape the way we see sculpture? In David Smith in Two Dimensions, Sarah Hamill broaches this question through an in-depth consideration of the photography of American sculptor ...
At the time of his accidental death in 1965, David Smith was regarded by his many admirers—this writer among them—as the pre-eminent American sculptor of his generation. Some of us went even further ...
A collection of abstract sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs, “David Smith Invents,” is showing now through May 15 at the Phillips Collection in Dupont Circle. Best known for his unique ...
Catalog of an exhibition held in New York at the Kleemann Galleries and at the Willard Gallery, April 1-26, 1952. Cover title. Rosalind E. Krauss mentions a catalog which includes a checklist and ...
From 1940 until his death in 1965, David Smith lived and worked in New York’s Adirondacks, high above Lake George. In his last decade and a half, when his steel constructions increased dramatically in ...