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David Smith

American Abstract Expressionist Sculptor, 1906-1965 . David Smith. David Smith (1906-1965)

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David Smith

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  1. American Abstract Expressionist Sculptor, 1906-1965 David Smith

  2. David Smith (1906-1965) American sculptor, David Smith, attended Ohio University to study art from 1924 up to the summer of 1925 when he left to work at the Studebaker motor plant in South Bend, Indiana. There he felt his true training had begun. In 1926, Smith went to study painting at the Art Students’ League in New York at which time he befriended Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning. When Smith left the Art Students’ League in 1930, he began to work on sculpture, not seeing a distinguishable difference between this and painting except for their technical execution. Smith’s newfound interest in sculpture related itself well to the welding and other metal working skills that he had acquired while working at the Studebaker plant. His work was inspired technically by sculptor, Julio Gonzalez, but conceptually and visually influenced by artists like Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and the general Cubist aesthetic. His first constructions were created from steel, found objects, and agricultural machinery. In 1940, Smith exhibited Medals of Dishonor, a set of fifteen bronze relief plaques, illustrating the commonplace for voracity and injustice in the world. During the 1940’s and 50’s, Smith created pieces like, Hudson River Landscape, work that was described as linear drawings made of metal. After 1950, Smith constructed the pieces that he is most remembered for today. These monumental metal sculptures like, Tank Totem, Agricola, and Voltri, dealt with the contradiction between density and sense of instability.

  3. The Royal Bird, 1948, stainless steel

  4. from left to right, Cubi XVIII,1964, stainless steel, Cubi XVII, 1963, stainless steel, Cubi XIX, 1964, stainless steel

  5. Sentinel IV 1957 Steel, painted black

  6. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Cubi XXVI, 1965 steel

  7. Circle III, 1962 painted steel

  8. Voltri VII, 1962 iron

  9. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Agricola I 1951-2, painted steel

  10. Voltri XV 1962, steel

  11. Pittsburgh Landscape 1954, painted steel relief

  12. I now know that sculpture is made from rough externals by rough characters or men who have passed through all polish and are back to the rough again.

  13. bibliography • http://www2.gasou.edu/art/frieder/Graphics420/smithcubis63.jpg • http://www.uwrf.edu/history/images/art/smith-bird.jpg • http://www.davidsmithestate.org/bio_files/sentinelV.jpg • http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?56126+0+0 • http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?56127+0+0 • http://www.davidsmithestate.org • http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/hirshhorn/smithpitt2.jpg • http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/hirshhorn/smithagri.jpg • http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/hirshhorn/smithvoltri2.jpg

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